Top 100 Quotes About Hanging On
#1. This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too.
Janet Fitch
#2. A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.
Ken Follett
#3. As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#4. Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks ...
Hunter S. Thompson
#5. When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
Sylvester Stallone
#6. I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
Robert Plant
#7. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.
Max Lucado
#8. Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
H.L. Mencken
#9. Trying not to get emotional but still hanging on the rearview mirror's single tale of recedings and vanishing points as we hang on looks our lovers give.
Thomas Pynchon
#10. In other words, Texans lynched one person a month for thirty years, and almost 80 percent of the time the man or woman hanging on the end of a rope or smoldering in the remains of a fire was African American.
E.R. Bills
#11. Nobody," he said, "has put in a good day's fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are." "Let
Norman Maclean
#12. People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.
Lester Levenson
#13. Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.
Susumu Katsumata
#14. Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.
Dan Miller
#15. ...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.
Alan Bradley
#16. There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.
Michael Marshall Smith
#17. She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.
David Levithan
#18. Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
Giorgio Armani
#19. The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.
Jimi Hendrix
#20. a hero is someone who is hanging on one more minute and making the world a better place
Samuel Cole
#21. The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.
Elena Ferrante
#22. What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)
Saint Augustine
#23. Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.
Amy A. Bartol
#25. A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."
Mary Ellen W. Smoot
#26. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
Robert Webb
#27. Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a parade. "Who was that," they'll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, "who was that?
Andrew Ryan
#28. If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#29. You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. Henry
#30. Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you've been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#31. Your mom is right here with us, Elle. Her spirit's here giving my exhausted arm strength to keep hanging on. She's keeping the current from whipping us all to hell. She's keeping the tree shrapnel from getting anywhere near us." A small smile formed. "She's keeping us alive.
Nicole Williams
#32. God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.
Rod Parsley
#33. The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
Joseph Campbell
#34. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.
Paul Bowles
#35. Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the bygone, and I'm prone to waxing wistful over the end of something even as I'm living it--cherishing, hanging on.
Lisa Anselmo
#36. A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful ... Everyone is hanging on every word ... Amazing.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#37. I don't even want to know someone who isn't barely hanging on by a thread.
Amy Schumer
#38. We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls
Frank Wynne
#39. 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 Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.
Glenn Hughes
#40. Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
#41. The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
Bill Vaughan
#42. Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for nothing?
Carrie Ryan
#43. I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
Mac Davis
#44. Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way
Roger Waters
#45. If any of you are injured, take a seat in this fine classroom." Dee opens up the nearest door and peeks in. It's a classroom with a life-sized skeleton hanging on a stand. "Bones will keep you company while you wait for the doctor.
Susan Ee
#46. Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.
Logan Lerman
#47. There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.
Marya Hornbacher
#48. Not all scars are bad, Alex. Some are worth hanging on to ...
Gavin Extence
#49. You can't atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?"
"The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.
Laini Taylor
#50. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#51. Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston
#52. Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.
Dennis Hopper
#53. All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
Billy Bragg
#54. Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.
Tim Tharp
#55. The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
Charles Baudelaire
#56. Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman's breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter's despised son.
Charles Spurgeon
#57. This is so TYPICAL / APOCALYPTICAL
Hanging on abysmal release / Jesus
I don't need this / Don't wanna be this
Icon in the Making / My hands are f**king shaking
Slipknot
#58. Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#59. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world
Sarah Dessen
#60. A week ago, the Water Rescue Society had held an evening there, as evidenced by the slogan hanging on the wall: THE CAUSE OF HELPING THE DROWNING IS IN THE HANDS OF THE DROWNING THEMSELVES.
Ilya Ilf
#61. If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
Anton Chekhov
#62. A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
Jean Stafford
#63. When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.
Deb Caletti
#64. But Annabel was surprised at how much the sight of her in Lord le Wyse's arms, then hanging on to him as he helped her down the steps, had made her want to slap Beatrice silly.
Melanie Dickerson
#65. Clavain looked around the room, taking in the gruesome menagerie of wraithlike seniors, wizened elders and obscene glass-bottled end-state Conjoiners. They were all hanging on his answer, even the visible brains seeming to hesitate in their wheezing pulsations.
Alastair Reynolds
#66. At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases to exist, and so, apparently does any logic that my mind is hanging on to. Logic would say that this is insane; every other fibre of my being says it's right.
Dianna Hardy
#67. The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.
Grace Slick
#68. My eyelids felt like had tiny but chubby sleep faeries hanging on the lashes and pulling them closed
John Corwin
#69. Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined ... or one great figure ... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
Philip K. Dick
#70. Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it.
Louis De Bernieres
#71. If you are keeping them because you can't forget a former boyfriend, it's better to discard or donate them. Hanging on to them makes it more likely that you will miss opportunities for new relationships.
Marie Kondo
#72. This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.
Amanda Hocking
#73. My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.
Gerry Lindgren
#74. Videographer stopped taping and looked me up and down as if he found me lacking but wasn't quite sure how. Then it hit him. "Don't you have a gun?" He glanced around the office as if there might be one hanging on a wall hook.
Robert Crais
#75. I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
Lita Ford
#76. I think you're wrong there. It feels selfish at the time, because the pain is excruciating, but there is no nobility in hanging on to something that is miserable and false. We have to fight for our happiness in life.
Kate Mulgrew
#77. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.
Dandi Daley Mackall
#80. There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.
Mike Yaconelli
#81. If only your life were a costume, and you could just take it off when you wanted to, leave it hanging on a hook, and walk away.
Brad Barkley
#82. Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#83. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
Margaret Atwood
#84. There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.
Thomas Jefferson
#85. I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.
Eric Avery
#86. After asking Humphrey to name his native city, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and drew a bold blue circle around Minneapolis on a map of the United States hanging on his wall - "so that I don't forget to order them to spare the city when the rockets fly.
Frederick Kempe
#87. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind - well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.
Gregory Maguire
#88. I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#89. I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would've vanished. I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.
Marie Lu
#90. It's just us, right?'
Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.
'It's just us.
Kelly Quindlen
#91. In any important relationship, we must always ask should we stay or leave. Perchance the correct answer exits in the reason for hanging on and the reason for finally moving on. Perchance self-sacrifice is required. Conversely, perhaps selfishness is called for as an act of self-preservation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#92. The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?
Charles Stanley
#93. Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
Robin Williams
#94. Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on.
Lauren Graham
#95. If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
Thomas Jefferson
#96. In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
Beatrice Lillie
#97. Most of all, he was tired of being a holdout, a sole survivor, the last coconut hanging on the last palm tree on the last little atoll in the path of the great wave of late-modern capitalism, waiting to be hammered flat.
Michael Chabon
#98. I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
David Hasselhoff
#99. Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?
Sherman Alexie
#100. Kids are always hanging on your tits," I added. "By the time they grow up, you've got tits down to your knees and curvature of the spine.
Nick Wilgus
