Quotes About Living

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

I never really had long range plans. I take one season at a time, every day at a time.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

I don't have any furniture.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

I really liked Glasgow. I really liked living there for a year. It's a very fun city, and it has a lot to offer young people who are interested in music and art. It's a very creative city.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

I have always chosen to do things that make me happy and don't believe in postponing good things in my life.

It was the cholesterol. I had two fried eggs a day for breakfast. I had no checkups for five years. I kept meaning to go. The doctor would probably say it was years of bad living. I've always had a good time. Maybe I've had too good a time.

In real life it's the living who haunt you. — Franz Wright, from section 1 of "Observations," Earlier Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)

One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonely and is torn limb from limb by some cave-Minotaur of conscience.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

As I have suggested earlier, this fascination likely came from a deep and correct intuition that the dynamics of vortices, which combine stability and change, embody an essential characteristic of all living forms.

all living systems are complex - i.e., highly nonlinear - networks …

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...