Quotes About Living

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.

Thou shalt not live within thy means Nor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd; Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views.

On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.