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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. -- Emile M. Cioran
I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live. -- Saffron Burrows
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. -- Johnny Depp
She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live. -- Bruce Springsteen
Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge. -- Ronnie Shakes
Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all. -- Marilyn Manson
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any. -- Voltaire
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. -- Elie Wiesel
The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live. -- Tonya Hurley
I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered. -- Julie Anne Peters
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons. -- Michael Caine
Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. -- Harry Reasoner
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? -- Emile M. Cioran
But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people. -- Isabelle Huppert
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live. -- Veronica Roth
If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life. -- Ayrton Senna
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly! -- Richard Bach
When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive. -- Esai Morales
I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live. -- Ma-Roo
Humor is the only reason to live. -- Marcel Duchamp
If you took away music, I wouldnt have a reason to live. -- Demi Lovato
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. -- Emil Cioran
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself. -- A. J. Hartley
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live. -- Bruce Springsteen
I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque
Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. -- Criss Jami
If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live. -- Anne McCaffrey
But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges. -- Gore Vidal
While we are seeking for pure love, good life, and a reason to live,We sometimes forget key things in life. And that is the ability to see what is the difference betweenWhat is wrong and what is right." -- The Eldest
One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years. -- Rex Stout
To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. -- Criss Jami
Short people got no reason to live. -- Randy Newman
we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. -- Stephen Chbosky
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. -- Thomas Aquinas
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient -- Marilynne Robinson
I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life. -- Scott Glenn
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. -- Alan Watts
There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding. -- Jon Anderson
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. -- Samuel Butler
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. -- Moby
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience. -- Kate Bush
The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity. -- Andy Weir
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. -- George Linnaeus Banks
I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. -- Stephen Chbosky
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. -- B. F. Skinner
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art. -- Jill Scott
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life -- Emilie Autumn
What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate. -- Bill Nye
I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason. -- Michael Harney
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. -- Will Smith
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. -- Michael Moore
I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. -- Hugh Jackman
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. -- Michael Moore
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one. -- Henry David Thoreau
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed. -- Joe Strummer
Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think - and I'm not defending the interests of Total in Russia - it is a no. -- Christophe de Margerie
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy. -- Henry Hampton
I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly. -- Sylvester McCoy
There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy. -- Julian Baggini
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Live for a reason. Live with passion. -- Debasish Mridha
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. -- Seneca the Younger
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. -- William Butler Yeats
Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away. -- Jessica Simpson
We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation. -- Michael Skolnik
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. -- Thomas Browne
"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something -- Aaron Karo
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. -- Alan Moore
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here. -- Eddie Money
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here. -- Eddie Money
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. -- Blaise Pascal
The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it! -- Leonard Ravenhill
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. -- Juvenal
Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around. -- Jodi Picoult
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. -- Louis Kronenberger
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each. -- Alan Lightman
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- George Carlin
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. -- George Eliot
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There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. -- Karen Horney
The only reason we live is also the reason we often die, even in a matter of seconds. -- Joe Etchison
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason. -- Georgette Leblanc
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. -- Seneca the Younger
If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development. -- Sarah Beeny
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. -- Ludwig von Mises
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.... -- Wallace Stevens
If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live. -- Susan Polis Schutz
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. -- John Locke
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. -- Ayn Rand
Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth. -- Lysa TerKeurst
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. -- Laozi
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. -- Ayn Rand
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. -- Laozi
If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married. -- Donald Verrilli Jr.
If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground. -- Eugene Mirman
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. -- Albert Schweitzer
We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason. -- Iris Murdoch
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. -- Leo Tolstoy
I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason. -- George Michael
The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul -- Harold Klemp
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. -- M. Scott Peck
Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea. -- John Updike
Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration. -- Will Tuttle
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's. -- Cesare Pavese
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? -- John Milton
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. -- Leo Tolstoy
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! -- William Wordsworth
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. -- William Johnson Cory
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world. -- William Ralph Inge

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