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Quotes About Living

That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.
~ Victor Canning
It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don't.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Ce n'est rien de mourir, C'est affreux de ne pas vivre.
~ Victor Hugo
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
~ Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.
~ Victor Hugo
I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. *Fantine
~ Victor Hugo
Sans la moindre métaphore et dans toute l'acception du mot, vivre, c'est brûler.
~ Victor Hugo
To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live
~ Victor Hugo
Dying is nothing; what's terrible is not to live.
~ Victor Hugo
El problema nuestro no es que nos vamos a morir; es que no sabemos como vivir.
~ Victor Hugo
Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.
~ Kristin Hannah
But you knew, or should know, that it was a wild thing you lived with, that a collar and leash and a bowl of food might tame the actions of the beast, but couldn't change its essential nature.
~ Kristin Hannah
Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living.
~ Kristin Hannah
He'd been the only Wolcott besides Elsa who loved reading, and he'd frequently taken her side in family disagreements. Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.
~ Kristin Hannah
Isn't it? Go to Paris. Have your fun but don't
~ Kristin Hannah
Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.
~ Kristin Hannah
you can't rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.
~ Kristin Harmel
A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can't, is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.
~ Kristin Kimball
simple love's hard to come by/ im just living my life, and i'm trying to be a lady.
~ L. Divine
Simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady." —CHRISETTE MICHELE
~ L. Divine
All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
~ L. Frank Baum
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
~ L. Frank Baum
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
~ L. Frank Baum
You speak sincerely, but your sorrow has no cause. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There has never been a time when you and I … have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.
~ L. Ron Hubbard