Dear Life Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in…
— Miguel Indurain
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My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
— Peggy Ashcroft
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Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.
— Logan Lerman
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
— Edmund Wilson
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I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own…
— Glenn Hughes
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We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
— Theodor Reik
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A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.
— Beth Moore
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God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
— Rich Mullins
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I’ll never forget the first time I ran with a group of Kenyan women in 2004... The first mile was way slower than my typical…
— Lauren Fleshman
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Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life
— Derek Landy
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I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island,…
— Fred Melamed
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The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
— Eric Hoffer
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When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and…
— Max Stirner
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You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
— Henry Miller
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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they…
— Meg Rosoff
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Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
— Louisa May Alcott
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You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better…
— Adam Young
Who Wrote These Dear Life Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 38 Dear Life Quotes, led by these top contributors: