Living Quotes

Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

~ Lee Strauss

We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Being alive and living aren't the same.

~ Alex London

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

~ Sol Luckman

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

~ Ian Fleming

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

~ Flannery O'connor

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

~ Dee Dee Artner

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

~ Moira Young

Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long.We do not die.We pass on.Pass on the life burning through our throats.When you leave me, I will not cry for you.I will run into the strongest wind I can find and welcome you home.

~ Michael Lee

Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alive…tomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the shadows, this side of heaven, often has its say. But let it never be that we allow evil, which basks in our fear, to hinder our ability to live vibrantly unafraid of what tomorrow might bring. The only way to defeat the inevitable darkness that touches this world is to live and love brilliantly bright with purpose. To not do so, is to diminish the very memory and glow of all the beautiful lights that have gone out before us.

~ Jason Versey

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

~ Dee Dee Artner

It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It was too nice a town to die in. Though it had no honeysuckle vines and no balconies and no guitars, it was meant for love. For living and for love, and the two were inseparable; one didn't come without the other.(Too Nice A Day To Die)

~ Cornell Woolrich

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once alive covered in a deep redmark the presentbut I am not yet deadNothing is hereonly the rain and mistfresh air and soilI do not need to exist.

~ Abby Musgrove

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

~ Cathryn Louis

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.

~ Bhagat Kabir

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree yes to the calling, then you ask God why?.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

~ Thomas Lux

Isn't it interesting how much we dislike the days that allow us to enjoy our weekends? The days that pay. If you don't like Monday's, you're not living your authentic life! You’re in the wrong job! What do you really want to do with your life…?

~ James A. Murphy

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

~ Carl R. White

Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to live a life worth living.

~ Dee Williams

...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it’s just that we’re taught not to notice. We’re taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won’t get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.It’s a lie we allow ourselves, and it’s understandable.But it’s simply not true.

~ Dianna Hardy

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

~ Dianna Hardy

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

~ Maya Angelou

In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.

~ Dee Henderson

To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

~ Manoj Arora

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the reason I couldn't travel my own speed was because I was waiting on the present to catch up, I had to wait to get to my destination. But really, there is no road, or flat plane or anything... there's just this very dangerous edge... cliff that we're dangling off of, there isn't a future really, I mean sure we can plan and prepare, but tomorrow may not come.I'm not saying base your life on that- if tomorrow does come, what you do today will influence it! But anything can push you off that cliff. So start living.

~ Melanie Kay Taylor

Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.

~ Elif Shafak

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

~ Elizabeth George

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

~ Jennifer Holm

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

~ Dee Williams

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.

~ Sagar Gosavi

Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.

~ Santosh Inani

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha