David Foster Quotes

I am just working on staying alive.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

I work to stay alive.

Well, I'm still breathing.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

My only success is that I am alive.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get