Top 100 Quotes About Desire To Live
#1. The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Richard Powers
#2. I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.
Anatole Broyard
#3. Perhaps none of us were actually made to live a hurried life. Perhaps a desire to live slowly and intentionally resonated deeply in the core DNA of just about all of us.
Tsh Oxenreider
#4. Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. The desire to live within our comfort zone and to be in control all the time is a denier of a fulfilling life that excites. Let go...
Assegid Habtewold
#6. All I knew was that once again I found myself alone, with even less desire to live and nothing to look forward to but aggravations.
Michel Houellebecq
#7. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.
David B. Haight
#9. Three men in ten conserve life; three men in ten pursue death. Three men also in ten desire to live, but there acts hasten their journey to the house of death. Why is this? Because of their efforts to preserve life.
Lao-Tzu
#10. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Henry Grattan Guinness
#11. It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.
Ernie Hudson
#12. This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
Josh Lucas
#13. Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Remy De Gourmont
#14. I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. Bush
#15. The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
Robertson Davies
#17. The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
Heraclitus
#18. Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.
Philip K. Dick
#19. It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.
Croft M. Pentz
#20. All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
Edward R. Murrow
#22. You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
Martin Luther
#23. While we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
#24. Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?
Pyotr Kropotkin
#25. The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.
Wallace D. Wattles
#26. The more my trust rests in God, the less I trust myself. If we truly desire to live the crucified life, we must get rid of self-trust and trust only in God.
A.W. Tozer
#27. Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me. I do not think I am altogether right.
Albert Fish
#30. Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
Michio Kushi
#31. I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.
Magdalena De Pazzi
#32. A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
Ernest Renan
#33. Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
Terry Brooks
#35. We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
#36. To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
Peter Heller
#37. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Bill Wilson
#38. What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.
Sheena Iyengar
#39. Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
David Lloyd-Jones
#40. There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.
Isaac Asimov
#41. The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.
George Santayana
#42. No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Kurt Hahn
#44. Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#45. Eventually, I stopped dressing like I was a Disney character, but the desire to live the life of a fairytale princess never really left me.
Monica Alexander
#46. I knew I was too late - and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.
Stephenie Meyer
#47. I knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to live was more powerful. now, instead, i felt its fragility. peter's suicide made me feel that the battle between the forces of life and death was far more evenly pitched.
Stephen Grosz
#48. I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
Rene Descartes
#49. The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life.
Billy Graham
#50. Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.
Donna Farhi
#51. If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong ... no desire to live with integrity ... no faith in God ... their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life's highest good.
Billy Graham
#52. Somehow the habit of eating had never appeared so ridiculous to me, and I rubbed my eyes. Presently I realized that my point of view came from having completely lost the desire to live.
Yukio Mishima
#53. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
#54. Some people believe they are destined for a life of continuous struggle. However, if you have a desire to live a more empowering life, creating an abundance of joy & easily attracting success to you.
David Riklan
#55. If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
Isaac Barrow
#56. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#57. That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
Robin Hobb
#58. The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.
Rebecca Solnit
#59. There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live ... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.
Ingmar Bergman
#60. Peace is not a goal to achieve; peace is the way we desire to live.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.
William Thoms
#62. Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles Grandison Finney
#63. I desire to live my life this way, ... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence.
Help me find the way.
Lisa Wingate
#64. The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.
Wynn Bullock
#65. It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Caterina Scorsone
#66. Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life - an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.
Billy Graham
#67. The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm.
Henry Miller
#68. I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
Anna Howard Shaw
#69. Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.
Ed Webster
#70. But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#71. God is my Rock. Without Him, I am nothing, not even an abnormally normal being with the desire to live, and make a difference in this world.
Kcat Yarza
#72. However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
Thomas Sowell
#73. The desire to live is stronger than the fear of losing the fight
RoChe Montoya
#74. I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Abraham Lincoln
#75. My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
Oscar Wilde
#76. The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God's standards.
Jim George
#77. For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.
Thorne Smith
#78. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.
Margaret Atwood
#79. He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.
Paulo Coelho
#80. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?
Robert Pattinson
#81. I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#82. Your vision not only becomes the future place you desire to live, but it becomes a foundation for your life's decisions.
Lisa A. Mininni
#83. I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?
Marie Bashkirtseff
#85. But the fire, the fire. The desire to live. I am not done yet, I am not.
Veronica Roth
#86. Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.
Jan Zwicky
#87. Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us ...
Rai Aren
#88. I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
Nawal El Saadawi
#89. When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.
John Owen
#90. Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.
Will Ferguson
#91. The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music ... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
Richard Eyre
#92. To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its virtue; 4) live it.
Joseph Iannuzzi
#93. When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
Sasha Azevedo
#94. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.
Deepak Chopra
#95. I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.
Rhys Darby
#96. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F
George Lakoff
#97. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.
Alden Bell
#98. What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
#99. Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
Elisabeth Shue
#100. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
