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Quotes About Living

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!
~ George Arnold
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The conditions for developing organisms with many of the properties considered characteristic of living beings, by evolutionary processes, do not have to be similar to those prevailing on Earth," he concluded, based on his numerical evolution experiments at the IAS. "There is every reason to believe that any planet on which a large variety of molecules can reproduce by interconnected (or symbiotic) autocatalytic reactions, may see the formation of organisms with the same properties.
~ George Dyson
Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.
~ Ilona Andrews
He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.
~ Ilona Andrews
It couldn't be real. People summoned monsters from the arcane realm, but I'd never heard of anyone summoning actual demons. Yet it was right there, living, breathing, real, and every instinct I had howled and clawed at my logic.
~ Ilona Andrews
He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin.
~ Ilona Andrews
You are not meant to be at peace. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive. You are hiding from life here. This isn't peace. This is a slow, deliberate suicide." He
~ Ilona Andrews
You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks." "He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.
~ Ilona Andrews
NeighborhoodScout.com and Movoto.com offer information about neighborhoods and crime statistics. NextDoor.com helps you identify neighborhoods you might want to live in and connect with neighbors, while Safewise.com helps you figure out how safe that neighborhood is.
~ Ilyce R. Glink
There's something specific about the doves' way of living my life as a natural result of today since it's raining
~ Inger Christensen
My certainty that deep down I'm a free man. It's a constant, precious possession, and whether I keep it or lose it is up to me and no one else. I desperately want the insanity we're living through to end. I desperately want what has begun to finish. In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live; Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
In living with, rather than relentlessly fighting their cancer, they ultimately live longer.
~ Ira Byock
Is your father writing a book? said Alison. No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.
~ Iris Murdoch
It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams.
~ Iris Murdoch
One reward of living in hell is a certain kind of courage. I do not fear anything, certainly not morality, or your foul fantasies either.
~ Iris Murdoch
They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.
~ Irvine Welsh
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
~ Isaac Asimov
I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.
~ Isaac Asimov
History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.
~ Isaac Asimov
You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.
~ Isaac Asimov
But it was more than a planet; it was the living pulse beat of an Empire of twenty million stellar systems. It had only one, function, administration; one purpose, government; and one manufactured product, law.
~ Isaac Asimov
Why not? You and I are eccentrics. We're certainly not typical of the people living on Terminus. As for criminals, that's a matter of definition. And if criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses, I'm willing to pay it. I demand the price be paid.
~ Isaac Asimov
And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.
~ Isaac Asimov