Dear Life Quotes:

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

- Bryan Lee O'Malley

topic: Rivers, Holding On, Dear Life

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

- Henry Miller

source: "Black Spring".

topic: Sublime, Dear Life, Ends, Alleys

The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

- Alice Munro

source: "Dear Life". Book by Alice Munro, 2012.

topic: Believe, Tragedy, Trying, Dear Life

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

topic: Life, Character, Men, Dear Life, Sympathy Messages

I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.

- Marc Morrone

topic: Life Is, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Dear Life, Roller Coaster Rides

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

topic: Sarcastic, Hanging On, Pushing, Dear Life

Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

- Derek Landy

topic: Love Is, Holding On, Finding Someone, Dear Life

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

- Gerry Lindgren

source: Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Giving Up, Keys, Race, Dear Life

Figure out WHY you're doing what you're doing and remind yourself of it constantly. Every day, every hour. Hold onto that for dear life. But don't expect anyone else to necessarily believe you, or know what is in your heart.

- Jane Park

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Believe, Heart, Hours, Dear Life

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Tough, Sometimes, Life Is, Dear Life

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

- Logan Lerman

topic: Hanging On, Life Is, Rollercoaster, Dear Life

Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

- Meg Rosoff

topic: Fall, Emotional, Blood, Dear Life, Blood Relatives

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

- Galt Niederhoffer

source: Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.204, St. Martin's Press

topic: Lying, Two, Light, Dear Life

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

- Beth Moore

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Mean, Dear Life

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

- Theodor Reik

source: Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

topic: Race, Dear God, Dear, Dear Life

When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

- Max Stirner

topic: Thinking, Enjoy Life, Doe, Dear Life, Solicitude

I’ll never forget the first time I ran with a group of Kenyan women in 2004... The first mile was way slower than my typical run to the point where I was looking around thinking, “Are they for real? These are the fastest women in the world?” But by mile 5 we were buzzing along, mile six I was hitting the gas, and mile seven I was hanging on for dear life.

- Lauren Fleshman

topic: Running, Real, Thinking, Dear Life

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

- Fred Melamed

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Islands, Eight, Acting, Cyclones, Dear Life

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Song, Night, Men, Dear Life, Shaking

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Self, Burning, Way, Dear Life, No Doubt

I ride horses once in a while, but Im no expert. I hold on for dear life.

- Emily Robison

topic: Horse, Experts, Dear, Dear Life

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Clouds, Class, White, Dear Life, Ledges

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

- Henry James

topic: Reality, Dear, Dear Life

There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Fall, Boys, Men, Dear Life, Certain Death

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

- Adam Young

topic: Heart, Mountain, Realizing, Steadfast, Dear Life

God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Letting Go, Men, Way, Dear Life, Wild Man

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

- Edmund Wilson

topic: Life, Style, Orchestra, Dear Life

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

- Peggy Ashcroft

source: "Fictional character: Mrs. Moore". "A Passage to India", www.imdb.com. 1984.

topic: Love, Dream, Adventure, Dear Life

I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

- Miguel Indurain

topic: Race, Cycling, Suffering, Dear Life, Sprinters

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.199, Titan Books

topic: Darkness, Lasts, Good Times, Dear Life

That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick said arrogantly. "You might know karate, boy, but I know gorilla, and I'm a level 40 champion in it. Let's hear it for Diddy Kong! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!" He mimicked the sound of a gorilla as he held on for dear life.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Boys, Champion, Sound, Dear Life, Nick Gautier

I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.

- Glenn Hughes

topic: Insanity, Soul, Fascination, Dear Life, Demonic

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

- Katy Perry

topic: Bulls, Bucks, Littles, Dear Life