Clinging Quote by Jeanne Calment

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so…

— James Salter

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children,…

— Roberto Bolano

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern…

— Katy Butler

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

— Carmen Laforet

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

— Anonymous

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,…

— Frederick Lenz

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I…

— Richard Bach

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer…

— Eduardo Galeano

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old…

— Anonymous

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being…

— Bill Maher

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose Once there was a…

— Sarah McLachlan

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

— Nancy Friday

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy…

— Sylvia Pankhurst