There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I’m so jealous,” she whispered, and he blinked. “Of what?” Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
