Life Quotes

I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

~ Neil Simon

But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It’s okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living.

~ Jasinda Wilder

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

~ Jack Kerouac

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?

~ Julian Barnes

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

~ Kasie West

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

~ Steve Goodier

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

~ Matt Simpson

To live at all is miracle enough.

~ Mervyn Peake

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

~ H. Havelock Ellis

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

~ L.m. Montgomery

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

~ Albert Camus

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

~ Ryan Higa

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

~ Jack Kerouac

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

~ Ted Hughes

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

~ Samuel Butler

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …

~ Morrie Schwartz

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

~ Horace

I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree’s.

~ Gyula Krúdy

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

The fog is clearing, life is a matter of taste.

~ Frank Wedekind

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

~ Annie Dillard

It brings me back to the moment, and I want to livethe moment with everything I’ve got.

~ Lisa Schroeder

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

~ Simon Van Booy

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

~ Stephen Levine

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

~ Philip Defranco

Like go for a walk, say a little prayerTake a deep breath of mountain airPut on my glove and play some catchIt's time that I make time for thatWade the shore and cast a lineLook up a long lost friend of mineSit on the porch and give my girl a kissStart livin', that's the next thing on my list.

~ Toby Keith

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.

~ Dash Shaw

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

~ Steve López

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

~ Stendhal

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end.

~ Dave Matthes

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

~ Raquel Welch

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

~ David J. Schwartz

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

~ Guru Nanak

The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

~ Brian Krans

It's only life. We all get through it.

~ Dean Koontz

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

~ Natalie Goldberg