Living Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

~ Richard Yates

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

~ Grace Murray Hopper

Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.

~ C.s. Lewis

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

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

~ Suzanne Collins

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

~ Bette Midler

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

~ Jeanette Winterson

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

~ Jack Kerouac

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.

~ Tom Wolfe

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

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

~ Gary Snyder

Always rememberYou are lovedYou carry the loveYou spread the loveYou radiate the loveAnd the love is returned to you

~ Karen Hackel

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

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

~ Walter Mosley

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

~ Matt Simpson

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don't really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can't even remember her name.

~ Chuck Klosterman

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 realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

~ Fernando Pessoa

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

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.~Slater

~ Ted Dekker

Even in the darkest cloudsThere are specks of joyOut of the darknessComes lightJust as dayAlways follows night

~ Karen Hackel

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

~ William S. Burroughs

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

~ Victoria Moran

I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

~ Bethany Wiggins

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

You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Its hard to die. Harder to live

~ Dan Simmons

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

~ Horace