Staying Alive – Quotes

With the beginning of

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

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 … Read more

If I was feeling

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was … Read more

When you start you\\’re

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

The first thing a

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one … Read more

I guess I realize

I guess I realize that I don’t want to die. I don’t want to live either, but-there really isn’t anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it’s the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it’s easier for me to stay alive than … Read more

With the beginning of

The only thing he

If I was feeling

When you start you\\’re

The first thing a

I guess I realize

My job is to

You\\’ve got to keep

I\’ve never managed anywhere,

The mystery of human