Quotes About Living

Rending me is an insight rendered by Mark Doty: "death's deep in the structure of things, and we didn't put it there." The vision of dying as a disarmed surrender imbued Rilke with the conviction that "We need, in love, to practice only this: / letting each other go," a difficult discipline because of the uniqueness of each living creature.

I promised myself no regrets," she whispered into the darkness. "No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.

Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.

Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.

He lived so badly, it seemed, because he always came into the moment encumbered

Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling.

Peace was a relative thing. It didn't have so much to do with where a person lived as how he lived.

Not a rule, but a reminder. We must live this day. We'll never get to live it again.

I remember she told me she could either spend her time working on a scrapbook about her life, or actually living her life. And she chose to live her life.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." —Buddha

had a lot of living to do!

Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.

Effective Bible Teachers exude a familiarity with the text that can only come from living with it.

So. I'll keep dancing in my costumes. Day and night. And I won't sleep as much as I should. And I will drink more than I should. And maybe, as I'm twirling and glittering, playing a retarded game of hide and seek in the middle of an open field, maybe, just maybe, whatever happens next will be bigger, and I will forget that which seems so huge to me right now.

And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.

How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.

Still, the first rule of cohabitation is Thou Shalt Not Diss the Other Dude's Kinfolk.

Comfort clothes, the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

Real life makes for good novels because it's lived as a bunch of lies, and because fictions of one kind or another are the only things worth living for.