Staying Alive Quotes - Page 9

• If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite

  Maria Bamford

  Alive, Reason, Spite

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• I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Alive, Want, Might

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Music, Kings, Alive

  "Madonna’s Only Wrongdoing Is That She Is Still Alive" by Kosta Petrov, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2016.

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• An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

  Snoop Dogg

  Wall, Men, Young Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

  Michael Crichton

  Philosophy, Animal, Reality

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Congo”, p.166, Vintage

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• Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Writing, Alive

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Memories, People

  "After Dark". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 7, 2004.

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• Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

  Barry Lopez

  Memories, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jun 30, 2010

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Mean, Years, Numbers

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• So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

  George Jung

  Summer, Jesus, Horse

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• You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

  Rumi

  Thinking, Air, Forever

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• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  Bear Grylls

  Fate, Decisions We Make, Alive

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Jun 24, 2015

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• If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Giving, Stories, Alive

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 25, 2012

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• We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

  Niall Williams

  Stories, Alive

  Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspire, Needs, Stories

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Aug 10, 2010

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• Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

  Johnny Depp

  Broken Heart, Ambition, Blow

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  The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Alive, Criminal Mind

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Sea, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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