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Quotes About Living

true revolution in our relationship to reality, that emerges out of the idea that a species is not whole unless a relationship between the living and the dead is an ordinary part of life.
~ Whitley Strieber
You're too old for this type of living,' he told
~ Wilbur Smith
Maybe that's what a ghost is - a presence of the dead in the dreams of the living.
~ Wilbur Smith
You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a warning to some of you, and an encouragement to others. In the meantime, I will go on with my story.
~ Wilkie Collins
It did not seem to Plato any insult to philosophy that it should be transformed into literature, realized as drama, and beautified with style; nor any derogation to its dignity that it should apply itself, even intelligibly, to living problems of morality and the state.
~ Will Durant
says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.")
~ Will Durant
Life, says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)
~ Will Durant
says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)
~ Will Durant
I have brought light into this world, and I have been given light from this world. And what light it is! I can say that I have lived. Can you say that you have lived? You must be able to say you have lived. I have loved, and I have been loved. That is all we should want. This is all you have to do right now. It's right in front of you. So just take it. I know I plan to.
~ Will Leitch
A happy fly If I live Or if I die
~ William Blake
Wouldn't it be wiser to experience the day ahead and savour it, as if it were my last, and postpone for a while my appointment with my pills and my whisky until the moment comes when I don't feel like coping any more and all anticipation has gone?
~ William Boyd
Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do -- but live. This place makes it all come over me. I see it now. I haven't done so -- and now I'm old. It's too late. It has gone past me -- I've lost it. You have time. You are young. Live!
~ William Dean Howells
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
~ William Faulkner
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
~ William Faulkner
But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again.
~ William Faulkner
A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from
~ William Faulkner
Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.
~ William Faulkner
escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude
~ William Faulkner
And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
~ William Faulkner
Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.
~ William Golding
Now to be precise. I had seen the whole building as an image of living, praying man. But inside it was a richly written book to instruct that man.
~ William Golding
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
~ William James
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James