desire for existence Quotes

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.

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.

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

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

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.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

We insist, it seems, on living.