Living quotes

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.