Quotes About Living

It was a trivial secret, but one I would remember as vividly as my feeling that while some people are haunted by the dead, others are haunted by the living.

All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead. To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.

refugees know that their subhuman status as the waste of nations is confirmed by having to live in their own waste).

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Death is not a laughing matter, so laugh while you are alive.

The problem of life can be solved only by living.

The purpose of life is to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving I could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But let it be infinite while it lasts.

É melhor viver do que ser feliz.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Can't run from hurt, Rose. You might miss some hurt, but you'll also miss all the joys of livin'.

Banning the practice of prostitution within an appropriate legal framework is actively preventing the female class from making a decent living and turning a profit from its very stigmatization.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

Remember: The essence of a living philosophy is that it must be alive. To be alive, it must be lived. To be lived, you must act! Actions, not mere words, determine the validity of a man's living philosophy.

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.