Top 121 Outlive Quotes & Sayings

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Questions outlive the answers.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

I don't want to outlive my money.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. Its important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

People just haven't saved enough for retirement. And they're going to outlive their money.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will outlive you and maybe your children and your childern's children. Batman will outlive me, Spider-Man will outlive me, the Avengers will outlive me, and so it goes.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

They live too long who happiness outlive.

I'll never be able to outlive Kogi. Kogi is a beast.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.