Stay Alive Sayings

#1. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The

Suzanne Collins

#2. But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

#3. I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Felix Baumgartner

#4. I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, you got in and I couldn't let you leave me behind. So listen to me when I say this. My life is yours. You're the reason I'll stay alive. The only goddamn reason.

Dee Tenorio

#5. I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.

Alice Munro

#6. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp

#7. Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

Ingrid Weir

#8. Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.

Peter Lee

#9. there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.

Suzanne Collins

#10. Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward

Munia Khan

#11. All you can do, he thought, is fight to stay alive, to stay conscious, to remain a witness and hope somehow there is a meaning to it.

Anne Rice

#12. Eating healthy and taking care of my body and my mind really make me come alive, and seeing others doing that inspires me to stay with it. I always feel great when I do.

Laura Prepon

#13. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

Elizabeth Wein

#14. Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't

Suzanne Collins

#15. At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders with death, the more I desired to stay alive, no matter the cost.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#16. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

Neil Gaiman

#17. He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Suzanne Collins

#19. Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

George Orwell

#20. My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Elizabeth Edwards

#21. You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don't know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.

Victoria Aveyard

#22. This year I, Molly Bigelow, resolve to stay alive.
That's it.

James Ponti

#23. We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

Kamila Shamsie

#24. Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

#25. Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Suzanne Collins

#26. Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Natalie Goldberg

#27. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

N.H. Kleinbaum

#28. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Alice Walker

#29. The only way you can rise above your troubles is too force your mind ... to stay in the present moment. The pass will haunt you & the future may worry you but right now at this very moment, you're alive ... so anything is possible!

Timothy Pina

#30. All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

Robert Altman

#31. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!

Martin Van Buren

#32. I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.

Langston Hughes

#33. Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today I can die for something - my way, my choice.

Jack Bauer

#34. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Monica Bellucci

#35. Desert strategies are useful: In times of drought, pull your resources inward; when water is scarce, find moisture in seeds; to stay strong and supple, send a taproot down deep; run when required, hide when necessary; when hot go underground; do not fear darkness, it's where one comes alive.

Terry Tempest Williams

#36. I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

Demetri Martin

#37. It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#38. He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

Suzanne Collins

#39. My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.

Homer

#40. The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Kenneth Rexroth

#41. What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know ... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

Mira Grant

#43. It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

Donald Trump

#44. To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

Kim Basinger

#46. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

V.E Schwab

#47. Is how you stay alive.

Mitch Albom

#48. If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Thomas Jane

#49. You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

Rumi

#50. As long as I keep moving, I should be OK. As long as I keep the notebook with me, I should stay alive. This is not what I thought life would be like when I turned sweet sixteen.

T.M. Goeglein

#51. Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

Scott Rudin

#52. To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

Dat Phan

#54. Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

Louise Gluck

#55. I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

Jenny Lewis

#56. The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two.

Rick Yancey

#57. BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

Jenny Holzer

#58. And as much as I'm telling her to stay here, I still want her to choose to come with me. To say fuck sanity and healing and closure. To say that I am the only thing she needs to be well and whole and alive. But we both know that's not true.

Katja Millay

#59. Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Steve Martin

#60. How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more ...

Charles Bukowski

#61. You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

Dave Eggers

#62. Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

Octavia E. Butler

#63. Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

Sherwin B. Nuland

#64. How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?

Marsha Norman

#65. The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

George Schultz

#67. They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

Charles Bukowski

#68. If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.

Matt Haig

#69. Whatever our path, whatever the color or grain of our days, whatever riddles we must solve to stay alive, the secret of life somehow always has to do with the awakening and freeing of what has been asleep.

Mark Nepo

#70. Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Martin Sheen

#72. All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.

Joe Abercrombie

#73. You want to know what I thought of in that boat?
I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.

Paullina Simons

#74. But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

A.E. Van Vogt

#75. Any last words of advice?" Peeta asks. "Stay alive," Haymitch says gruffly. That's

Suzanne Collins

#76. An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.

Deb Baker

#77. Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish

Munia Khan

#78. The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary
how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Montgomery Clift

#79. Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Vanessa Redgrave

#80. I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

Lana Del Rey

#81. Don't give up the fight to stay alive and even if you have to, find the reason in another's pain if they lose you. If not for yourself, then those around who care like I do...One day you'll see the clear blue....

311

#82. You're a hothouse flower," I tell her. "You can't grow under natural conditions. You need adventure. And security and love in order to stay alive.

Krista Ritchie

#83. I've found that watching is the quickest way to learn, and the safest way to stay alive." Alucard

V.E Schwab

#84. When you get to be my age, you can stay alive eating very little,' she said. 'Of the finest food possible,' she added half in jest.

Haruki Murakami

#85. Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

Jayne Castle

#86. Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.

Rachel Caine

#87. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are

Catrina Burgess

#88. It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

David Levithan

#89. Don't go getting swollen because you got lucky once. Any Messenger alive will tell you to stay out at night when you have to, not because you want to. The ones that want to always end up cored.

Peter V. Brett

#90. You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Elia Kazan

#91. At this point in history, 1952 A.D., our lives and freedom depend largely upon the skill and imagination and courage of our managers and engineers, and I hope that God will help them to help us all stay alive and free.

Kurt Vonnegut

#92. Such is the human being: when he is afraid, he sees enemies everywhere and thinks the only chance to stay alive is to exterminate them.

Jason Stearns

#93. I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive.

Harry Dean Stanton

#94. i will stay alive.

Dave Pelzer

#95. Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

#96. We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

Niall Williams

#97. The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

Karen Traviss

#98. Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving ... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.

Chris Crutcher

#99. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#100. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Mitch Albom