Quotes About Living

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.

Sabbath was a realist, ferociously a realist, so that by sixty-four he had all but given up on making contact with the living, let alone discussing his problems with the dead.

La vida es un breve periodo de tiempo durante el que estamos vivos.

Every mundane detail, quickly forgotten, marks our time on this earth. We're doing nothing. Just living.

A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them -- but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.

Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.

It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

a life without investigation is not worth living

You were the Morning Star among the living. In death, O Evening Star, you light the dead.

il più intenso e semplice dei piaceri concessi ai viventi, quello di restaurare la propria tensione osmotica.

We used to live in your house, George said. And now, guess what? Jerry added. Now we're dead in your house!

It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you. -Myrnin So not the point! -Claire Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider. -Myrnin You're insane. -Claire

I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?' 'People who like things neat?' 'Its not natural.