Ian Somerhalder Quotes

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

The idea of service leads to community.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.