Verb
live through (third-person singular simple present lives through, present participle living through, simple past and past participle lived through)
To survive a difficult period or event
My grandfather lived through the Great Depression.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Friedan
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Abraham Lincoln
A gentleman can live through anything. William Faulkner
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? Rumi
With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other. Italian Proverb