Staying Alive Quotes

“Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“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, Fallen

“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, In the Company of Ogres

“Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!”
― Germany Kent

“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.”
― Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker

“Staying alive with a brain bent on self-annihilation, in a world that doesn't necessarily value your worth, is the ultimate radical act.”
― Faith G. Harper, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

“Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.”
― George Effinger

“Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward”
― Munia Khan

“Ja smatram da postoje svi razlozi za život, ali ne uvek, ne i za svakoga. Ponekad nema smisla živeti samo života radi. Ali o tome ne možemo ubedljivo razgovarati. Ni sporiti. Sva su ta velika pitanja života sasvim lična stvar.”
― Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti, knjiga III

“I recognize the fact that whatever a person is doing in their lives, and whoever they happen to be at that moment in time; they are exactly where they are and who they are, as a result of their own life story, as a result of the voices in their heads, as a result of the monsters that they battle. Everything that I see about a person, is their own animation of their very best fight at staying alive.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You're just trying to keep alive long enough to stay that way.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“I don’t have a lot to look forward to when I finally die. I’ll either wake up a crazed vampire, who will seek out the people I love, to eat them. Or, I get to enjoy an eternity of torture and torment in hell. Love the options. So, I did everything I could to stay alive. You’d be surprised what you will do when you know what waited for you when you died.”
― L.A. Kennedy, Macabre: A Demon Hunter Novel

“Leaving that rotten place was not possible and staying would slowly unfold the nightmares.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Whatever happens in your life, please stay alive. I believe you can do it. Don't ever give up.”
― Moona Hoshinova

“Why would you do that to him?' I hurl at Xaden, then shake my head. I don't care why. 'Forget it,' I mutter, then march off, heading back toward the spot where Tairn told me to wait.

'Because you put too much faith in him,' Xaden answers anyway, catching up to me without even lengthening his stride. 'And knowing who to trust is the only thing that will keep you alive- keep us alive- not only in the quadrant but after graduation.'

'There is no us,' I say, dodging a racer as she races past. Dragons land left and right, the ground trembling with the force of the riot's movement. I've never seen so many dragons at flight in the same moment.

'Oh, I think you'll find that's no longer the case,' ...”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing