Live Quotes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

~ Groucho Marx

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

~ Martin Luther King

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm gonna live till I die.

~ Frank Sinatra

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

~ Oscar Wilde

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

~ Tennessee Williams

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

~ Ian Fleming

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

~ Alexandre Dumas

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

~ Susan Sontag

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

~ Steven Pinker

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

~ Eckhart Tolle

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

~ Tony Judt

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

~ Philip Johnson

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

~ Mercedes Mccambridge

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

~ Epicurus

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

~ Henry Van Dyke

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

~ Bono

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

~ John Key

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

~ Sara Sheridan

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

~ Slobodan Milosevic

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

~ George Foreman

A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.

~ Keahu Kahuanui

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

~ Bruce Springsteen

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

~ Dhani Jones

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

~ Bob Marley

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

~ Jon Batiste

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

~ Gloria Gaynor

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

~ Mary Kay Ash

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

~ J. Cole

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

~ Ellie Goulding

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

~ Ronnie Milsap

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

~ Bruce Springsteen

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

~ Amy Lee

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

~ Ariel Dorfman