Quotes About Living

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.

Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.