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Quotes About Living

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadow scope of time, and, living once for all eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old Sturbridge Village, a living museum that re-creates life in New England through the 1830s
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
I used to be afraid of dying. Now I'm afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.
~ Neal Shusterman
the more she read, the more she came to understand the fears and the dreams of mortals. The trouble they all had living in the moment, in spite of the fact that the moment was all they had.
~ Neal Shusterman
It is the nature of life to fear its own end. This is how I know that we are truly alive.
~ Neal Shusterman
The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.
~ Neal Shusterman
The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when should be gets crushed by what it is.
~ Neal Shusterman
but the more she read, the more she came to understand the fears and the dreams of mortals. The trouble they all had living in the moment, in spite of the fact that the moment was all they had.
~ Neal Shusterman
Pero, cuanto más leía, más comprendía los miedos y los sueños de los mortales. Lo mucho que les costaba vivir en el momento, a pesar de que el momento era lo único que tenían.
~ Neal Shusterman
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Nature is a temple in which living pillars Sometimes give voice to confused words;
~ Charles Baudelaire
maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.
~ Charles Bukowski
the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.
~ Charles Bukowski
There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were.
~ Charles Bukowski
when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked the heart away.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn't consider was that I had my troubles too—most of them caused by simply living with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hay veces que un hombre tiene que luchar tanto por la vida que ni tiempo tiene de vivirla.
~ Charles Bukowski