Top 100 Stay Alive Sayings
#1. If you don't want to fail, find your will to stay alive, everything else will follow.
Anonymous
#3. For books are people... people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
E B White.
Nigel Jay Cooper
#4. I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
Charles Bukowski
#5. People either stole to stay alive or to feel alive. She had to imagine that they ran away for the same reasons. Lila
V.E Schwab
#6. Boring people stay alive. Aunt Eda said.
Matt Haig
#7. Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
Mireille Guiliano
#8. "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."
Miley Cyrus
#9. Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.
Mark Buchanan
#10. What it has meant to stay alive when my daughter did not. What it has meant to suffer a heartbeat after carrying the weight and form of her inside my body, wedged just beneath that fist-shaped muscle.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#11. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
Laini Taylor
#12. Stay in the game and stay alive.
Joe Teti
#13. Things get better everyday you stay alive
then I'm amazed
every day
that the sun decides to rise
every minute, every hour, is another
chance to change
life is beautiful & terrible & strange.
Johnette Napolitano
#14. We're not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We're completely beyond that - both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it's the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It's our life that terrifies me.
Bryant A. Loney
#15. I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.
James Surowiecki
#16. Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.
Juliette Lewis
#17. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
Toni Morrison
#18. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?
George Orwell
#19. I've known all sorts of fear - fear of pain, fear of discovery, fear of capture. This is new. This is the kind of fear that teaches me the difference between trying to stay alive, and wanting to live.
Amanda Bouchet
#20. These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.
Jan Cameron
#21. Evolution doesn't give a damn about happiness itself, but will use the promise of happiness to keep us struggling to stay alive.
Anonymous
#22. We were killing ourselves by trying to stay alive.
Tahereh Mafi
#23. Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
Daniel Day-Lewis
#24. Haven't you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.
Josephine Angelini
#25. Paul says, "If not for yourself, my lady, stay alive for me."
Our eyes meet.
His next words are a whisper. "I have no need for a world without you in it.
Claudia Gray
#26. Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.
Mira Grant
#27. I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.
Mary Tyler Moore
#29. The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#30. Even if I say
It'll be alright
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life
And again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we'll turn it around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late
Three Days Grace
#31. Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.
Paul Henderson
#32. The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Nicholas Mosley
#33. Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings
Debbie Macomber
#34. If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.
Kevin DeYoung
#35. Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.
Lil B
#36. I need you to be my person. I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they're standing next to you when the ball drops.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. But nobody can stay alive without getting into danger sometimes, and danger doesn't mean getting hurt, Cap'n; it only means we might get hurt. So I guess we'll have to take the risk.
L. Frank Baum
#38. You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
Brent Weeks
#39. They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
Russel Honore
#40. I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.
Hannah Moskowitz
#41. 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
#42. No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you ... (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
James Fenimore Cooper
#43. What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.
Dominic Monaghan
#44. The good news is that if you don't seal up your heart with caulking compound, and instead stay permeable, people stay alive inside you, and maybe outside you, too, forever. This
Anne Lamott
#45. So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?
Bella Andre
#46. I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.
Lauren Bacall
#47. I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
Brent Spiner
#48. The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature
all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
Michael Crichton
#49. The world isn't that black-and-white, is it? It doesn't all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive.
Victoria Schwab
#50. People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
Haruki Murakami
#51. I wish in one sharp, abrupt swell, that I could stay. What a beautiful word that is. Stay with me. Stay home. Stay alive.
Kristan Higgins
#52. I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
Madonna
#53. I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.
Cornell Woolrich
#54. Whilst man still draws breath, still remains intact with but a soul, hope and dreams will stay alive as a light to all who need it.
Justin Murphy
#55. I don't know what to do, I want to die but you're making me stay alive, I'm not sure if I should betray you and do it or move on and push through it.
Lindzz
#56. I was interested in staying alive, and in order to stay alive, we have to do things we don't like.
Fabio Geda
#57. Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive.
Gloria Smith
#58. The object was not to stay alive but to stay human.
Leah Wilson
#59. You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter ... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.
Philip Guston
#60. And I can't help thinking of the birds here - how they disappear in the wintertime, heading south for food and warmth and shelter. Heading south to stay alive . . . passing us on the way
Jacqueline Woodson
#61. Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped....and then fills up his pockets with items he will need to stay alive on his desert island.
Stephen King
#62. You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive.
Walter Farley
#63. If you are much cleverer than your enemy, you can even help your enemy to stay alive and not to harm himself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Gao Xingjian
#65. I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.
Louise Bourgeois
#66. I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.
Darren Shan
#68. The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
Ann Landers
#69. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.
Rick Remender
#70. I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir
Alwyn Hamilton
#71. Meeting is more exciting than parting but parting is important if you want to stay alive in a certain way.
Charles Bukowski
#72. Chalk again?" Cal seemed almost disappointed. "Too bad there's no chalk monster."
Penn snorted with amusement. Chalk monster. That was like saying it was a vampire. Everyone knew vampires didn't exist. Zombies who drank blood to stay alive. Ridiculous.
R. Cooper
#73. The first rule: Trust no one. Which leads to the second rule: The only way to stay alive as long as possible is to stay alone as long as possible. Now I've broken both.
Rick Yancey
#74. You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan
#75. Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.
Richard Bach
#76. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.
This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#78. Daughter, he said in a voice like old wood breaking, can you ever forgive me?
I could only answer his question with one of my own. Putting my hand over his mouth, I whispered, Which of us would not sell all we had to stay alive?
Emma Donoghue
#79. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
Barry Lopez
#80. Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive!
Octavia E. Butler
#82. If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour
#83. When you are young and strong ... you can stay alive on your hatred" ... but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"
Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
#84. If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!
Trey Anastasio
#86. If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.
Debbie Ford
#87. They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
Ian Fleming
#88. It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.
Mike Nichols
#89. I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
Robert Redford
#90. The things we do to stay alive for another year. Another day. Another hour. The deals we make with the universe and ourselves. You start to feel dirty.
Richard Kadrey
#91. The world has two faces :
The day or the bright moment when
we naturally stay alive (awake).
The night or the dark moment when
we naturally remain dead (sleep).
Rohan Nath
#92. I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
J.D. Salinger
#93. I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive ... if that's what I am.
Stephenie Meyer
#94. Did he just say
?"
"Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did."
"Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.
Rachel Caine
#95. The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.
May Sarton
#96. That's why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It's like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It's got to consume, and consume, and consume.
John Jackson Miller
#97. An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?
Snoop Dogg
#100. Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.
Toni Morrison
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