Top 85 Quotes About Staying Alive
#1. The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
Richard Louv
#2. Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?
Michel Templet
#3. Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
Sergei Yesenin
#4. Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
Alex Lowe
#5. The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Staying alive, as it turns out, is mostly common sense.
Judy Melinek
#7. I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.
Mark Cuban
#8. The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
John Marsden
#9. Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.
Mary Balogh
#10. Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.
Anne Campbell
#11. I was interested in staying alive, and in order to stay alive, we have to do things we don't like.
Fabio Geda
#12. As time went by, matters improved; the armies, especially the British and French Armies, became better at staying alive while killing larger numbers of the enemy which, though hardly a matter for satisfaction in human terms, is what well-trained armies are supposed to do.
Robin Neillands
#14. The Testing is no longer filled with excitement for the opportunity to help the Commonwealth rebuild. The Testing is now about staying alive.
Joelle Charbonneau
#15. I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
Jerry Coleman
#16. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#17. There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
David Attenborough
#18. One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
Patrick Swayze
#19. For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.
John Trudell
#20. It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other
George Orwell
#21. If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.
John Irving
#22. Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
Meg Rosoff
#23. I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four."
He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.
Pittacus Lore
#24. Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
Neal Shusterman
#25. I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte
#26. Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
Robert Jordan
#27. Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
Frank E. Peretti
#28. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.
Mayank Kashyap
#29. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.
Liu Cixin
#30. The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#31. Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.
Richelle Mead
#32. I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there's got to be something beyond that, right?
Isaac Marion
#33. While the Sun is setting, we realise that we have survived today as well and we thank to our mind, to our luck and to the universe! All these three made this miracle possible! Yes, staying alive is a miracle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive.
Ishmael Beah
#35. Jesper always felt better when people were shooting at him. It wasn't that he liked the idea of dying (in fact, that potential outcome was a definite drawback), but if he was worrying about staying alive, he couldn't be thinking about anything else.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. No, you misunderstand, Madame Prime Minister. I'm not just good at staying alive. I'm also really, really good at drugging people. - Grace
Ally Carter
#37. I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!
Ryan Stiles
#38. Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.
Vikram Adhikari
#39. What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without further or deeper purpose.
Jonathan Maberry
#40. Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.
Carolyn Wall
#41. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.
Michael Zadoorian
#42. Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.
Richard Wollheim
#43. Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert
Susana Fortes
#44. Its not staying alive, its being alive
J.A. Mock
#45. I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.
Bill Cosby
#47. You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.
Sebastyne Young
#48. Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#49. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#50. The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.
Gordon Bethune
#51. Attack, voracious
eating, and flight:
it's a sound routine
for staying alive on edges.
Margaret Atwood
#52. The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward
Munia Khan
#54. [i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT'S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]
Helen Oyeyemi
#55. Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.
Jayne Castle
#56. What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.
Lillian Vernon
#57. I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
Gary Wright
#58. This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.
Cesar Vallejo
#59. Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#60. The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
Andrew Rosenthal
#61. I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.
Ayshay
#62. As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.
Mark Burnett
#63. Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251
Frank Herbert
#64. I've been so busy staying alive I never thought of what this must be like for my parents.
Andy Weir
#65. Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.
Robert Altman
#66. That's it ... I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.
Samantha Young
#67. The function of staying alive is automatic, living your life is not, living takes knowing what you are doing and where you are going.
Mark Quam
#68. Do you know what I love? Life. And romantic love is a distraction that makes staying alive more difficult. [Sabine]
Kresley Cole
#69. For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.
Doug Dorst
#70. When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.
Ellen MacArthur
#71. This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her.
Justin Cronin
#72. You're young," Teft said. "I'm old."
"That makes you wiser, presumably?"
"Damnation no. The only thing it proves is that I've more experience staying alive than you.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
A. Lee Martinez
#77. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.
Graham Gardner
#78. It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.
Love.
Lauren Kate
#79. Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
Frank Sinatra
#80. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#82. Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.
Frederic Gros
#83. It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.
Donald Trump
#84. Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
Abbi Glines
#85. My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.
Meryl Streep
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