Quotes About Living

For the first time in memory, I was unable to sleep not because I was anxious but because I was excited. To live in a damp crowded asshole and sing--if these guys don't know the secret to living, I don't know who does. (The Grieving Owl, page 157)

You haven't lived until you've sailed

Our mother became the living ghost that haunted it, gaunt now and rattling ice cubes instead of chains.

Immune cells are also sensitive to our emotions. They react positively to emotional states characterized by a sense of well-being and a feeling that we are connected to those around us. It's as if our immune cells mobilize all the better when they are in the service of a life that is objectively worth living.

In the grip of depression or anxiety, any affirmative step is better than paralysis. Action promotes more action; decision produces decision; living generates life.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.

Power is only an aphrodisiac for the living dead

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose-if we dare.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. My hands naturally come together in reverent worship.

Compost, gardenias, guaranteed exchange rates, little deals here and there, playing the stock market, and getting sick become a substitute for living.

Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.

Perhaps all this displacement of anxiety into the physical realm was a feminine way of simplifying a far deeper and more insoluble difference, for Natalie believed Tonya had a gift for living and Natalie herself did not seem to have this gift.

Death lives with us everyday. Indeed our ways of dying are our ways of living. Or should I say our ways of living are our ways of dying?

his ideal of living.

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

There's two things everybody got to find out for theyselves; they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

If you're not adventurous,, you're not really living, I think... especially in college.