Living Quotes

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would'v...

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the rel...

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells...

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the question...

Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could aft...

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the sense...

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go t...

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. S...

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...

In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex man...

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situa...

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for ou...

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appr...

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential u...

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today, ...

To the Virgins, To Make much of TimeGather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And ...

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not ...

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic a...

People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of...

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of d...

With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'l...

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less deg...

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Oh I must pass nothing byWithout loving it much,The raindrop try with my lips,The grass with my touc...

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense o...

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree...

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather t...

How many things can I do without?

It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you d...

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of th...

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that pers...

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encount...

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so m...

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was ...

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did wi...

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what ...

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am i...

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

Everyone living is doomed

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental ...

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also lo...

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register...

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your o...

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!”"We all have. It's called living."(Ho...

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's cal...

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and wor...

Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a bri...

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to ...

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior th...

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an ...

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attr...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerousl...

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the e...

Like go for a walk, say a little prayerTake a deep breath of mountain airPut on my glove and play so...

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a co...

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body.

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you li...

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you...

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous...

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it ...

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the univ...

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm ...

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell...