Quotes about living page 37
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Katniss (p. 377)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.
“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”
Helen Prejean (1939) advocate for the abolition of the death penalty
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Let Me be a Woman
“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”
James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
“In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Source: Les Misérables
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
Source: The Disorderly Knights
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) <br class="br">Context: Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”
Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Life and Love
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Octave Mirbeau book The Torture Garden
Variant: “It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Source: Le Jardin des supplices
“Look to the living, love them, and hold on.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Variant: Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?
Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Grand Chorus. <br class="br"> A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687) <br class="br">Source: The Major Works <br class="br">Context: So, when the last and dreadful Hour<br>This crumbling Pageant shall devour,<br>The trumpet shall be heard on high,<br>The dead shall live, the living die,<br>And musick shall untune the Sky.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“The older you get the more you live in the past”
Walter Mosley (1952) American writer
Source: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower
“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
Source: Selected Stories
“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
James Fenimore Cooper book The Deerslayer
Source: The Deerslayer
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
As quoted in "Quotable Cary" at American Masters (25 May 2005)
Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33680672/the-los-angeles-times/ "Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally,"
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7
Context: Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“You can still function as a living ruin.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
Susan Andersen (1950) American writer
Source: Burning Up
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Context: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.
“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”
James Frey Bright Shiny Morning
Source: Bright Shiny Morning
Chuck Palahniuk book Choke
Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Source: Asfixia
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
