Rick Riordan Quotes

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

I have a fierce will to live. 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 very end.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.