Quotes about living

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“Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.”

“It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!”

“To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?”

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

“My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”

“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”

“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”

“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”

“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”

“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”

“We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.”

“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.”

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

“Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?”

“They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines."
"Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce."
"We need more special effects and dance numbers.”

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

“I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?”

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”

“Living Memory
I carry you with me into the world,
into the smell of rain
& the words that dance between people
& for me, it will always be this way,
walking in the light,
remembering being alive together”

“That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.”

“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”

“We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.”

“How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.”

“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

“Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)”

“This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.”

“Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”

“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

“If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“… show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.”

“Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.”

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”

“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”

“people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.”

“The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”

“Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”

“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”

“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish… Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”

“It's a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”

“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?'
'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”

“When you have children, you're obligated to live.”

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

“Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

“So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.”

“Action alone is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force.”

“Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.”

“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”

“Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.”

“We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.”

“But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.”

“Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine…”

“Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.”

“No one can live with nothing.”

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”

“I wish we didn't live so far apart… You're kind of addicting.”

“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”

“he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.”

“There is more to living than”

“I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.”

“Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.”

“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“God grant that I may never live to be useless!”