Top 100 Outlive Quotes
#2. There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.
Rick Atkinson
#3. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.
Isaac Asimov
#4. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
Henry Rollins
#5. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin
#6. I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
George Michael
#9. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George Eliot
#10. After a pause, Andrew says that these buildings will always be here, that they will outlive us all. And I believe him. "But just imagine," my mammal brain says, "if you took this one we're standing in down in such a way that it toppled into that guy.
Hugh Howey
#11. To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#12. Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.
P.D. James
#13. To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.
Oscar Milosz
#14. My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
Barry Manilow
#15. Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.
Martha Waterman
#16. The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#17. While not all passions are meant to live, their substance is meant to outlive.
Ioana-Cristina Casapu
#18. I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#19. Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live without Mom and Dad - I could not bear to "outlive" them - for to be a daughter without parents did not seem possible to me.
Joyce Carol Oates
#20. I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.
Hugh Jackman
#21. Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
Anne Sexton
#22. So your junk food has a shelf life of twenty-two years and will probably outlive your fat, sorry ass.
Rory Freedman
#23. Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted.
Laozi
#24. Children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
Ishmael Beah
#25. No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.
George R R Martin
#26. Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made us, for once we are thrown into the world, we continue to exist forever, and our stories go on being told, even after we are dead.
Paul Auster
#27. There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself
James Nayler
#29. If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.
Murray Horwitz
#30. Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.
Thomas Paine
#31. The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.
Tyler Perry
#32. However, football has a life of its own and it seems to outlive us all, even the most influential and historic figures and powerful ideals. That, in a way, is a comfort to us who call ourselves supporters; we are part of the breath of something immortal.
Brian Belton
#33. My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
Boomer Esiason
#34. My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.
JohnA Passaro
#35. You outlive your wife, then your colleagues and friends, then your accountant and the building doorman. ou no longer attend the opera, because the human bladder can only endure so much. Social engagements require strategy and hearing aid calibrations. pg 269
Dominic Smith
#36. We are not different nor alike
But each strange in his leather body
sealed in skin and reaching out clumsy hands
and loving is an act
that cannot outlive
the open hand
the open eye
the door in the chest standing open.
Marge Piercy
#37. One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh
#39. To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
Pierre Salinger
#40. What I feel is the momentary shock of realizing that most of the wood, metal and plastic fixtures, the sinks, lampshades, the shower stall, and even the drinking cups will all outlive me if my body follows the same progression that this tiny invisible-to-the-eye virus has initiated.
David Wojnarowicz
#41. Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.
Roshani Chokshi
#42. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#43. If humans escape the solar system and outlive the Sun, our descendants may someday live on one of these planets. Atoms from Times Square, cycled through the heart of the Sun, will form our new bodies. One day, either we will all be dead, or we will all be New Yorkers.
Randall Munroe
#45. Jubal had long ago even foresworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible that a pet would outlive him, be orphaned.
Robert A. Heinlein
#46. Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it. I'd
Wislawa Szymborska
#47. You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world with objects and ideas that will outlive them, and you suddenly glimpse the fires that burn below human despair.
Greg Baxter
#48. I'll never be as old as someone older than me, but I can be older than them if I outlive their lifespan.
Jarod Kintz
#49. The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
#50. I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
Anne Reeve Aldrich
#51. Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who bought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities
their brute persistence.
Nicholson Baker
#52. What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.
Robert Morgan
#53. One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the
world.
J.C. Ryle
#54. Tull stopped laughing and stared into Loken's face. His blue eyes were terribly cold and hard. 'Kaos is the damnation of all mankind, Loken. Kaos will outlive us and dance on our ashes. All we can do, all we can strive for, is to recognise its menace and keep it at bay, for as long as we persist.
Dan Abnett
#55. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
Annie Dillard
#56. Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
Maria Bartiromo
#57. I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.
C.J. English
#59. You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.
Todd Edwards
#60. Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness!
Akuku Mach Pep
#61. The words you write will outlive you. Choose them wisely.
Kira Hawke
#62. I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f
ers! I'll dance on their graves.
Michael Robotham
#63. I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.
Iyanla Vanzant
#64. Words often outlive the people who create them.
Amy Neftzger
#65. Outlive your superiors and the world is yours.
~ Beniago
R.A. Salvatore
#66. The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
George Orwell
#67. For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years.
Jodi Picoult
#68. And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he could muster with a heart so broken. Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.
Melina Marchetta
#70. Thank God life ends - we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious ... our bodies will kill us ... our bones will outlive us.
Patrick Marber
#71. Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.
Richard Corliss
#72. It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
John Green
#74. A good story will always outlive the truth.
Marty Rubin
#75. For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.
Barbara Kingsolver
#76. Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it.
Larry McMurtry
#77. It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?
Truman Capote
#78. Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
Ursula Burns
#79. I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Michael Bolton
#80. I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
Erma Bombeck
#81. How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#82. The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.
Michele Bachmann
#83. When I die," he continued, "you're next in line."
"Do you actually believe I'll outlive you?" West asked. "With my vices?"
"I have just as many."
"Yes, but I'm far more enthusiastic about mine.
Lisa Kleypas
#84. Like a dog! he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
Franz Kafka
#85. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
E. M. Bounds
#86. Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.
Mary Zimmerman
#88. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. They live too long who happiness outlive.
John Dryden
#90. Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.
Suzy Kassem
#91. The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
Charles Francis Richter
#94. If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Marjorie Garber
#95. Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.
Iris Murdoch
#96. With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
Frank Ocean
#97. It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
Debbie Reynolds
#98. Rosario is safe. You were supposed to outlive me. Elisa is ten times the ruler you were. I've stolen your wife. I'm not sorry.
I miss you.
Rae Carson
#99. Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
#100. Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
Peter Drucker
