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But surely the will to create was a form of the will to live...? ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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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
Will To Live quotes by Ian Somerhalder
I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is art
My song can bind a human heart
And if you chance to know my face
My hold shall be your last embrace.

I shall be thy lover...

I am unlike a mortal lass
From dreams of longing I have passed
I came upon your lonely cries
Revealed beauty to your eyes
So shun the world that you have known
And spend your nights within my own.

I shall be thy lover...

You shall be known by other men
For your great works of voice and pen
Yet inspiration has a cost
For with me know your soul is lost
I'll take your passion and your skill
I'll take your young life quicker still.

I shall be thy lover...

Through the kisses that I give
I draw from you that I will live
And though you think this weakness grand
The touch of death your lover's hand
Your will to live has come too late
Come to my arms and love this fate

I shall be thy lover...

I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is art
My song can bind a human heart
And if you chance to know my face
My hold shall be your last embrace. ~ Heather Alexander
Will To Live quotes by Heather Alexander
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
Will To Live quotes by Dennis Lehane
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
Will To Live quotes by Anthony Kiedis
He has exchanged part of his spirit for just the will to live. ~ Sarah Noffke
Will To Live quotes by Sarah Noffke
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. ~ Kevin Hearne
Will To Live quotes by Kevin Hearne
On July 6, he gave a speech to newspaper and television executives at the great columned building housing the National Archives and the original copy of the Constitution of the United States. "When I see those columns," he said, "I think of what happened to Greece and Rome." "They lost their will to live," he said. "They became subject to the decadence that destroys civilization. The United States is reaching that period. ~ Tim Weiner
Will To Live quotes by Tim Weiner
If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
Will To Live quotes by Neale Donald Walsch
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
Will To Live quotes by Thomas Ligotti
Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as a manufactory for its own use. Yet even the human race ... reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this conflict, this variance of the will with itself; and we find homo homini lupus. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Will To Live quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Will To Live quotes by Juliette Cross
Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet. Gritting ~ Nalini Singh
Will To Live quotes by Nalini Singh
At 10 a.m. the first customer came throught the door: 'I'm not really interested in books' followed by 'Let me tell you what I think about nuclear power.' By 10.30 a.m. the will to live was but a distant memory. ~ Shaun Bythell
Will To Live quotes by Shaun Bythell
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
Will To Live quotes by Wallace D. Wattles
[...] what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk. ~ Dean King
Will To Live quotes by Dean King
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
Will To Live quotes by Karel Capek
HECTOR
Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do?
CAPT. SHOTOVER
Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman.
HECTOR
And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray?
CAPT. SHOTOVER
Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Will To Live quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live. ~ Jenny Hval
Will To Live quotes by Jenny Hval
But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They're just songbirds. Right?"
"Yeah, I guess so," I said, But it's not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live. ~ Suzanne Collins
Will To Live quotes by Suzanne Collins
To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what. ~ Euginia Herlihy
Will To Live quotes by Euginia Herlihy
I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. ~ Marty Rubin
Will To Live quotes by Marty Rubin
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
Will To Live quotes by Maria Semple
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Will To Live quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity. ~ Tom Robbins
Will To Live quotes by Tom Robbins
You're not the most troubled person I've worked with in my career, but you are unequivocally the strongest. There are some things that can't be taught. Either you have it or you don't." She nodded slowly. "You have it."

Jessica planted her feet on the ground and crossed her arms on the desk. "Have what?"

"A will to live that goes beyond circumstance and possibly even reason. You find something from nothing and feed off it. You're that flower that sprouts through a crack in the barren granite face of a mountain. You feel what everyone else has to see to believe. You sense the sun before you see its light, and you do it subconsciously. That's a gift. That's why you're still here - alive - with me today. ~ Jewel E. Ann
Will To Live quotes by Jewel E. Ann
Ronan was a national bad boy now, the wild boy who should not be left alone with virgin debutantes. Only, the world did not know it was Ronan who was the frightened virgin and Emily the drunken temptress on the night in question. He was beyond despair and had lost the will to live. He was a dead man walking, His heart and soul was ripped out of his chest. He would never get his decent girl now, his life was over. ~ Annette J. Dunlea
Will To Live quotes by Annette J. Dunlea
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
Will To Live quotes by Shenita Etwaroo
Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man - his courage and hope, or lack of them - and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed. This suddenly lowered his body's resistance against the latent typhus infection. His faith in the future and his will to live had become paralyzed and his body fell victim to illness - and thus the voice of his dream was right after all. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
Will To Live quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
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
Will To Live quotes by Ellen J. Barrier
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
Will To Live quotes by Bijou Hunter
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
Will To Live quotes by Suzanne Collins
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
Will To Live quotes by Winston Churchill
In the Nazi Arbeit [work] camps back in '44 when a man was caught smoking one cigarette, the whole barracks would die," a patient, Ralph, once told me. "For one cigarette! Yet even so, the men did not give up their inspiration, their will to live and to enjoy what they got out of life from certain substances, like liquor or tobacco or whatever the case may be." I don't know how accurate his account was as history, but as a chronicler of his own drug urges and those of his fellow Hastings Street addicts, Ralph spoke the bare truth: people jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. ~ Gabor Mate
Will To Live quotes by Gabor Mate
Among people who have autism and speech challenges, I think there will always be individuals whose "verbal blocks" come from the same place as mine. They too, I believe, can unlock language by referencing common points between memory scenes and the moment they're in. This might take a great deal of practice, but their family, helpers and teachers mustn't give up on them. The person with special needs will sense that resignation, lose their motivation and stop trying to speak. This can erode even their will to live. Believe me. Communication is the person, to a major degree. Please don't be the first to walk away. ~ Naoki Higashida
Will To Live quotes by Naoki Higashida
What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others; respect for the fundamental creative impulse in ourselves. A certain kind of self-respect or native pride is necessary to a good life; a man must not have a sense of utter inward defeat if he is to remain whole, but must feel the courage and the hope and the will to live by the best that is in him, whatever outward or inward obstacles it may encounter. So far as it lies in a man's own power, his life will realize its best possibilities if it has three things: creative rather than possessive impulses, reverence for others, and respect for the fundamental impulse in himself. ~ Bertrand Russell
Will To Live quotes by Bertrand Russell
Suffering can kill. Not always physically. But it can kill dreams and it can deaden hope and the will to live. ~ Mary Balogh
Will To Live quotes by Mary Balogh
God is dead," wrote Mainländer, "and His death was the life of the world." Once the
great individuation had been accomplished, the momentum of its creator's selfannihilation would continue in a piecemeal fashion until nothing remained standing. And those who committed suicide, as did Mainländer, would only be following God's example. Furthermore, the Will-to-live that Schopenhauer argued activates the world - a concept logically developed but only within a mythological framework - was revised by his disciple Mainländer as evidence not of a movement of a tortured life within beings, but as a deceptive cover for an underlying death wish in all things to burn themselves out as hastily as possible in the fires of becoming . . . or begoing, as it were. In this light, the raging of human progress is thus shown to be a mightily apparent symptom of a downfall into extinction that has just gotten underway. ~ Thomas Ligotti
Will To Live quotes by Thomas Ligotti
How do you weigh a soul?
Is it heavy with love or hate?
Does it deny the things it's done?
Does it even remember its own name?
Does it miss those it has loved?
Does it long for the life it's lost?
How do you weigh a soul?
After it has paid the highest cost,
Does it lose the will to live?
Without a physical shell
Does it sense without hands
That can touch and truly feel
Does it need sustenance to last?
A cold drink or warm meal
How do you weigh a soul?
Are souls even real? ~ Ashley Jeffery
Will To Live quotes by Ashley Jeffery
My will to live completely overcame my desire to win ~ Alfred Hajos
Will To Live quotes by Alfred Hajos
No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. ~ Yann Martel
Will To Live quotes by Yann Martel
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
Will To Live quotes by Nilakanta Sri Ram
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
Will To Live quotes by Haruki Murakami
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
Will To Live quotes by Sophia Loren
Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Will To Live quotes by Albert Schweitzer
And let's face it people, no one is ever honest with you about child birth. Not even your mother. "It's a pain you forget all about once you have that sweet little baby in your arms." Bullshit. I CALL BULLSHIT. Any friend, cousin, or nosey-ass stranger in the grocery store that tells you it's not that bad is a lying sack of shit. Your vagina is roughly the size of the girth of a penis. It has to stretch and open andturn into a giant bat cave so the life-sucking human you've been growing for nine months can angrily claw its way out. Who in their right mind would do that willingly? You're just walking along one day and think to yourself, "You know, I think it's time I turn my vagina into an Arby's Beef and Cheddar (minus the cheddar) and saddle myself down for a minimum of eighteen years to someone who will suck the soul and the will to live right out of my body so I'm a shell of the person I used to be and can't get laid even if I pay for it. ~ Tara Sivec
Will To Live quotes by Tara Sivec
Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance. That was the nature of the stars. and the trees bore their buds and blossoms and scars for everyone to see, and whether it signified pleasure or pain, they accepted the strong will to live. flies that lived only for a day swarmed toward their death. every life had its radiance and beauty. i had insight into it all for a moment, understood it and found it good, and also found my life and sorrows good. ~ Hermann Hesse
Will To Live quotes by Hermann Hesse
People tell you to keep your "courage" up. But the time for courage is when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask and that was courage.

--Now, courage means the will to live and there's all too much of that. ~ Roland Barthes
Will To Live quotes by Roland Barthes
Don't be too anxious on my account. I have but one wish - to be in good health; the tedium is a passing matter, and cheerfulness depends in the last resort upon myself. Human beings have an incredible amount of endurance and will to live; I should never have expected to find so much in myself; now I know it from experience. Farewell! I hope that these few lines will give you much pleasure. Greet every one you see whom I have known - forget no one. I have not forgotten anybody. What can the children be thinking of me, and how do they explain to themselves my disappearance ? Farewell. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Will To Live quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To die is to move on with the invisible. To die is also a joy, a joy of submitting to that which is greater than the known, namely, the pure unknown. That is a joy. But to live mechanized and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. There is no ignominy in death. There is complete ignominy in an unreplenished, mechanized life. Life indeed may be ignominious, shameful to the soul. But death is never a shame. Death itself, like the illimitable space, is beyond our sullying. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Will To Live quotes by D.H. Lawrence
Humans are ever resilient, and their will to live surpasses everything else. Do not lose hope, Allison. ~ Julie Kagawa
Will To Live quotes by Julie Kagawa
He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. Give him one more chance. ~ Ian Fleming
Will To Live quotes by Ian Fleming
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
Will To Live quotes by Michel Houellebecq
Speak of the future, and that shall become your will to live! ~ Hiro Mashima
Will To Live quotes by Hiro Mashima
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
Will To Live quotes by Sumner Redstone
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
Will To Live quotes by Albert Schweitzer
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
Will To Live quotes by Albert Claude
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. ~ Norman Cousins
Will To Live quotes by Norman Cousins
Art, in its will to live and progress, puts on the mask of these dull-hearted personal traits in order to manifest, objectivize, and fulfill itself in them. ~ Thomas Mann
Will To Live quotes by Thomas Mann
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
Will To Live quotes by Mia Asher
Now!
Forgive me not for what I say
Much less what I feel...
My lady,
You the one who stole my soul and hid it thou heart
My lady!
Gave my this curse of love!...
Love, love gave it life
But at what cost?
Now... Now I know not what is to belong to my self
I have lost my will to live if not by your side.
But how tis' came to be?
I know little of what came to pass but one thing I know
My love for you is true
I belong to you ~ Alexander Caban Jr.
Will To Live quotes by Alexander Caban Jr.
And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before - to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence. ~ Andre Gide
Will To Live quotes by Andre Gide
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
Will To Live quotes by Mo Yan
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
Will To Live quotes by Stefan Zweig
Oh, not the kind of courage that makes a soldier go across no-man's land. That's the kind that he summons up because he has to. This kind is- well, it is part of one's will to live, part of one's instinct for self-preservation. Sometimes, we have to kill a little so we can live, when we don't-when women don't, they cry themselves to sleep and have their mothers wash out their hose every day. ~ Harper Lee
Will To Live quotes by Harper Lee
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
Will To Live quotes by Garth Stein
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
Will To Live quotes by Milan Kundera
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ~ Herta Muller
Will To Live quotes by Herta Muller
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
Will To Live quotes by Timothy Zahn
Everything pains me. The merest trifle rouses a sense of abandonment.

I'm impatient with other people, their will to live, their universe. Attracted by a decision to withdraw from everyone [no longer bearing the world of Y]. ~ Roland Barthes
Will To Live quotes by Roland Barthes
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
Will To Live quotes by Karen Marie Moning
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
Will To Live quotes by Ian Morgan Cron
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
Will To Live quotes by Agatha Christie
Reproduction is the ultimate purpose of every organism, and its strongest instinct; for only so can the will conquer death.

And to ensure this conquest of death, the will to reproduce is placed almost entirely beyond control of knowledge or reflection: even a philosopher, occasionally, has children. ~ Will Durant
Will To Live quotes by Will Durant
A guy with no will to live isn't worth killing. ~ Yukako Kabei
Will To Live quotes by Yukako Kabei
Nothing holds her in, nothing holds her together. Through all those holes and rents she has dispersed, though yet living. Neither the will to live not the will to kill herself. No will at all. This is a state I had not thought possible. I am dead but not deadened; she is deadened but not dead. ~ Amit Majmudar
Will To Live quotes by Amit Majmudar
There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live. ~ Frida Kahlo
Will To Live quotes by Frida Kahlo
Mhisery found comfort in the fact Quinn saw her as a woman. He saw past the tattoos, the piercings, and the attitude. She had built walls around her heart since her mother's death; fearing if she let anyone in she would lose herself. If she let anyone in they would see her dysfunctional family, and would look down on her for it. She didn't want anyone to see the man her father had become. She wanted them to remember him as he was before her mother died, and he lost his mind - along with the will to live. ~ Shyloh Morgan
Will To Live quotes by Shyloh Morgan
We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling from shape to shape and from power to power, crawling and then walking confidently upon the land, struggling generation after generation to master the air, creeping down the darkness of the deep; we see it turn upon itself in rage and hunger and reshape itself anew, we watch it draw nearer and more akin to us, expanding, elaborating itself, pursuing its relentless inconceivable purpose, until at last it reaches us and its being beats through our brains and arteries...It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening; out of our lineage, minds will spring that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves. A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. ~ H.G. Wells
Will To Live quotes by H.G. Wells
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. ~ Michel Houellebecq
Will To Live quotes by Michel Houellebecq
You're still in love with her. She makes you want to live life. Personally, and this is just me, man, if I ever met a woman who saved me that way, I'd devote some temples to her or something. That's how the Taj Mahal got started, I'm sure. ~ Karina Halle
Will To Live quotes by Karina Halle
My face set to a grim and determined expression. I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live. It's not something evident, in my experience. Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. 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 every end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity. ~ Yann Martel
Will To Live quotes by Yann Martel
There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it. ~ Dominic Cooper
Will To Live quotes by Dominic Cooper
Hope and trust are beautiful things. One gives a person the will to live, the other makes it worth living. ~ Jacob Gralnick
Will To Live quotes by Jacob Gralnick
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
Will To Live quotes by Albert Schweitzer
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. ~ Tom Wolfe
Will To Live quotes by Tom Wolfe
Emotions can override ... the more powerful fundamental motives that drive our lives: hunger, sex, and the will to survive. People will not eat if they think the only food available is disgusting. They may even die, although other people might consider that same food palatable. Emotion triumphs over the hunger drive! A person may never attempt sexual contact because of the interference of fear or disgust, or may never be able to complete a sexual act. Emotion triumphs over the sex drive! And despair can overwhelm even the will to live, motivating a suicide. Emotions triumph over the will to live! ~ Paul Ekman
Will To Live quotes by Paul Ekman
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ~ Don DeLillo
Will To Live quotes by Don DeLillo
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
Will To Live quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Animals' pain and pleasure are akin to yours and mine, and their will to live is just as strong. ~ Johnathan Balcombe
Will To Live quotes by Johnathan Balcombe
Our will to live is often much greater than the difficulties of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Will To Live quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
work. play. passion. ~ Jim Clark
Will To Live quotes by Jim Clark
I don't know why he isn't dead, maybe he's lucky. Certainly his physical self is dead. Before the streets, drugs, IV use, and hustling -medically - his body is not right.
[...]
So there is some will to live in him, to pass on his knowledge and good nature. It's a mystery. Dave is an inspiration to people. He is society's throw-away. ~ Jim Goldberg
Will To Live quotes by Jim Goldberg
Arben was large. Strong. Armed. And these, his strengths, were his greatest weaknesses.
Brute force and the ability to control others through fear and intimidation made men lazy. Overconfident. Slow.
She would never be as fast as a bullet, but in close contact, would always be faster than the hand that drew the gun. Speed was life. Speed was survival. Speed born from the will to live, from the necessity of staying one move ahead, speed carved into her psyche one sadistic knife slice after another. That which hadn't killed her had made her faster. ~ Taylor Stevens
Will To Live quotes by Taylor Stevens
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. ~ Joni Mitchell
Will To Live quotes by Joni Mitchell
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
Will To Live quotes by David Mitchell
When Nietzsche made his famous definition of tragic pleasure he fixed his eyes, like all the other philosophers in like case, not on the Muse herself but on a single tragedian. His "reaffirmation of the will to live in the face of death, and the joy of its inexhaustibility when so reaffirmed" is not the tragedy of Sophocles nor the tragedy of Euripides, but it is the very essence of the tragedy of Aeschylus. The strange power tragedy has to present suffering and death in such a way as to exalt and not depress is to be felt in Aeschylus' plays as in those of no other tragic poet. He was the first tragedian; tragedy was his creation, and he set upon it the stamp of his own spirit. It was a soldier-spirit. Aeschylus was a Marathon-warrior, the title given to each of the little band who had beaten back the earlier tremendous Persian onslaught. ~ Edith Hamilton
Will To Live quotes by Edith Hamilton
But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
Will To Live quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald
It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is a place where there is a unity in all those who live there, an understanding in all those who relate to it. There is a will to sacrifice for each other; there is a will to live for each other; there is a will to protect each other. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Will To Live quotes by Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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
Will To Live quotes by Jennifer Horsman
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