Living Quotes

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living...

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for...

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

And all at once the heavy nightFell from my eyes and I could see, --A drenched and dripping apple-tr...

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhe...

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this fo...

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through...

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alon...

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing fl...

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of ...

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the st...

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t real...

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're...

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the ...

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wh...

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to s...

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhausti...

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There ...

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the peta...

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em ...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at...

Living well is the best revenge.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for...

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to...

Now I knew that life and truth were one; that life mere and pure is in itself bliss; that where bein...

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most im...

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies,...

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made ...

I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is ...

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identic...

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,"Even if y...

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of exist...

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men d...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the roc...

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful en...

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...

Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the re...

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And th...

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an orga...

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Socie...

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that ...

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering...

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. ...

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the to...

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid h...

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just...