Quotes about living

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“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”

“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”

“I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.”

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

“Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

“She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.”

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

“Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.”

“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”

“Live as a villain, die as a hero”

“What has no shadow has no strength to live.”

“Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.”

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”

“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”

“Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.”

“… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

“In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”

“… For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas…”

“The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.”

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy… or maybe it's compassion… is thechoice.”

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”

“Lord, let me live until I die.”

“Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)”

“Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.”

“I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”

“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

“Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.”

“As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.”

“To live is enough.”

“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”

“… at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.”

“The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.”

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.”

“Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.”

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

“Very quiet and yet quieter living-for-ourselves.”

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”

“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”

“Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brainsthe universe.”

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”

“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”

“Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.”

“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.”

“But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.”

“Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.”

“Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”

“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

“We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167

love always found itself again.”

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill… we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”

“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”

“If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?”

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

“This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.”

“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”

“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”

“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”

“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.”

“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”

“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'
To live alone?'
To live. With what you are.”

“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”

“It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”

“Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

“Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.”

“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.”

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”

“…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.”