Definition of Outlive

Outlive

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

Related Definitions:

Beyond, Live, Longer, Or, Survive, Than, To

Outlive Quotations

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

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.
George Bernard Shaw

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher Hitchens

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

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.
Michael Bolton

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

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

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.
Boomer Esiason

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

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Outlive Translations

outlive in Italian is sopravvivere
outlive in Spanish is sobrevivir

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