The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Vin was coming to realize that her old goal in life - simply staying alive - was uninspired. There was so much… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there’s got to be something beyond that, right?” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing… — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay… — Jack Bauer Copy Share Image
You are never too old and it is never too late to start a new life. You can decide to transform your… — Benjamin Valadez Copy Share Image
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
“So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live… — Frank E. Peretti Copy Share Image
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Taylor clapped her hands three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.” — Vikram Adhikari Copy Share Image
Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I give the people of 13 something I have withheld from them: credit. For staying alive against all odds.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth,… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. Youre wise if you dont stick your… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
