Staying Alive Quotes (89) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Staying Alive. Having life: not dead or inanimate. Still existing, force, or operation, still active in competition with a chance of victory.
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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
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
~ Robin Williams
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
~ Mitch Albom
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
~ Niall Williams
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
~ Ann Landers
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
~ Bear Grylls
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
~ Madonna Ciccone
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
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
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
~ Frank Sinatra
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
~ Cornel West
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
~ Bear Grylls
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
~ Anne Lamott
The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
~ John Marsden
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
~ George Orwell
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
~ Daniel Berrigan
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
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
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
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.
~ Peter Matthiessen
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
~ E. B. White
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
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
~ Carl Sagan
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
~ Niall Williams
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
~ Barry Lopez
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Mitch Albom
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.
~ J. K. Rowling
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
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
~ Cornel West
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
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.
~ Carl Sagan
If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite
~ Maria Bamford
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
~ Elia Kazan
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
~ Frank Sinatra
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
~ Jonathan Maberry
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
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
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
~ Bear Grylls
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
~ Quentin Crisp
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
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
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
All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.
~ Robert Altman
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
~ John Howard
If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!
~ Trey Anastasio
Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
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
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
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
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
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
~ George Orwell
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
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
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
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.
~ Gunter Brus
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
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.
~ Marie Howe
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.
~ Henry Rollins
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.
~ Marilyn Hacker
Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.
~ J. B. Smoove
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
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
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
~ Mireille Guiliano
What are we going to do about the injuries to our country still going on right in front of our eyes? It gets me out of bed in the morning. It makes me mad enough to get my blood up and want to get out there with [Mark] Twain and get it said and that is why I still hit the road and go out on the stage and keep working at staying alive.
~ Hal Holbrook
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
Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.
~ Paul Henderson
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
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
~ Yoko Ono
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
~ Anne Lamott
It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.
~ Carl Safina
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
~ Robert Jordan
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
~ David Hackworth
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
I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!
~ Ryan Stiles
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
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~ Russel Honore
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.
~ Kathy Acker
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