Top 100 Quotes About Will To Live
#1. Waiting for salvation, his faith transcends the dread of the moment; the desires of the oppressed will be sharpened by the courage to be and the will to live.20
Samuel Terrien
#2. There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
Dick Gregory
#3. I'm so jealous," she whispered, and he blinked. "Of what?" Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he'd ever seen. "You're so alive, Lore. There's fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.
Larissa Ione
#4. Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.
Albert Schweitzer
#5. There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
Rebecca West
#6. I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
Anthony Kiedis
#7. Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
Albert Schweitzer
#8. Our will to live is often much greater than the difficulties of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity.
Primo Levi
#10. His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.
Ian Morgan Cron
#11. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts
James Nicoll
#13. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what that means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes have glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. Sophie and the six crewmen might have understood
Kevin Hearne
#14. Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.
Sanchita Pandey
#15. All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. Hospitals strip a lot from you - your independence, your confidence, sometimes your will to live. But pettiness too. Pettiness is the first casualty of the ICU waiting room. No one has the energy for it.
Dennis Lehane
#17. Love has the power to destroy you.
Love has the power to bury you alive in a coffin full of pain and despair, robbing you of air, of the will to live.
Mia Asher
#18. I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and
water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but
it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's
lost the will to live.
Suzanne Collins
#19. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. The
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. No, it was not superstition, it was a sense of beauty that cured her of her depression and imbued her with a new will to live.
Milan Kundera
#21. My will to live completely overcame my desire to win
Alfred Hajos
#22. But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
Joni Mitchell
#23. Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.
Wallace D. Wattles
#24. That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Danny Boyle
#25. And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.
Miguel Syjuco
#26. Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.
Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE
Jennifer Horsman
#27. I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.
Winston Churchill
#29. I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?'
'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.'
'Is there a difference?'
'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.
Evelyn Waugh
#30. The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell
#31. But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#34. People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.
Garth Stein
#35. Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.
Paulo Coelho
#36. Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
Lev Grossman
#37. The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.
Ian Somerhalder
#38. You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
Agatha Christie
#39. But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well - for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels - I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men -
Homer
#40. Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.
Jenny Hval
#41. Being afraid is not a sign of weakness. Being afraid is a sign of a will to live, it is an indication that we place value in our lives and those in it. The only defeat in fear is allowing your fear to defeat you.
Shenita Etwaroo
#42. Judd kissed me gently, comforting me with his touch. "I would die without you, angel. I would fucking lose the will to live. My old life wouldn't be worth shit. Not now that I've seen what it could be.
Bijou Hunter
#43. Despite all the shit we've been through, we still fall in love and have dreams. Even living the way we are, we survivors are fairly happy. Incredible, but true. Our will to live is so strong.
Manel Loureiro
#44. Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins
#45. None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
Frida Kahlo
#48. Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Karel Capek
#49. Humans were made for love and beauty; their vulnerability was what made them feel on the deepest level and what could also crush their will to live.
Juliette Cross
#50. The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Michel Houellebecq
#51. Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet. Gritting
Nalini Singh
#52. What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
#53. Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
Brendan Behan
#54. Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.
Bette Lee Crosby
#55. People who don't get seasick have no idea what it's like. It's not just nausea. It's nausea plus losing the will to live.
Maria Semple
#56. We find our humanity - our will to live and our ability to love - in our connections to one another.
Sheryl Sandberg
#57. I think it's really important to sustain your dreams. Because a person without a dream will lose his or her will to live. Even if it's just a small dream, it means a lot to that person.
Jaejoong
#58. He has exchanged part of his spirit for just the will to live.
Sarah Noffke
#59. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Mo Yan
#60. I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Sumner Redstone
#61. If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald.
David Mitchell
#62. The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.
Ellen J. Barrier
#63. A guy with no will to live isn't worth killing.
Yukako Kabei
#64. The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.
Timothy Zahn
#65. It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
Albert Claude
#66. 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
#67. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors
Thomas Ligotti
#68. To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what.
Euginia Herlihy
#69. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost it's meaning
Jean Baudrillard
#70. The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.
Tom Robbins
#71. The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
Albert Schweitzer
#72. When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#73. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
Stefan Zweig
#74. Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe
#75. an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#76. The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
Albert Schweitzer
#77. Suffering can kill. Not always physically. But it can kill dreams and it can deaden hope and the will to live.
Mary Balogh
#78. The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.
Tyler Perry
#79. That's how lonely and sad I was. Dying is not that hard. Lime the air being sucked slowly out of a room, the will to live was slowly seeping out of me. When you feel like rhat, dying doesn't seem like such a big deal.
Haruki Murakami
#81. If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. If you play dead often enough, you've got a great will to live.
Terry Kiser
#83. Hope and trust are beautiful things. One gives a person the will to live, the other makes it worth living.
Jacob Gralnick
#84. TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
Karl A. Menninger
#85. Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
Jane Siberry
#86. No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
Yann Martel
#87. Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
J.K. Rowling
#88. It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
Sophia Loren
#89. I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
Yann Martel
#90. The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.
Michel Houellebecq
#91. It was morning, and nothing frightened Amy in the morning, because her will to live never kicked in until after lunch.
Jincy Willett
#92. Humans are ever resilient, and their will to live surpasses everything else. Do not lose hope, Allison.
Julie Kagawa
#93. It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.
John Lithgow
#94. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#95. If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?
Steven Cuoco
#96. 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
#97. Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
Paul Negri
#98. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.
Dan Groat
#99. Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
Nawal El Saadawi
#100. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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