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.
The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
Before I die, I want to fight for life.
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.
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker
I'm alive and I want to keep living.
I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
