Quotes About Living

Meaning,you do nothing, Claire. That's an order.' She gave him a cocked mock salute. Yes, sir, sorry, sir.' He sighed. I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?' I started living with you guys.' Oh, right.

Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.

Anybody who believed vampires couldn't feel things like living people did had never met Michael Glass. -Fall of Night

At altitudes of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and with wind velocities reaching 45 miles an hour, many living insects have been taken.

The exhaustion of living was just too much for me

My family lives in that building now, along with Grandpa in the fourth-floor "penthouse" apartment, as he calls the converted space that was once an attic studio.

Sleeping is time not spent living.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

She'd been wrong to think the universe cold, and only the human heart driven by desire. The universe itself was built of naught but desire, and desire was its sole living god.

she took what she gave and she gave what she took, yes, but sometimes she gave just a little bit more – and that little bit more is the whole art of teaching, the whole art of living, in fact, and Miss Puddleton knew it.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.

Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute.

life's about living and being happy, not about dying.

But all organic matter must have cell structure," Sara said. "Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal.

spoons used to scoop the living eye from the skull.

Raising Amity provided sufficient meaning to make any life worth living. He didn't say as much to Amity

Libby has always thought animals live in the moment, their past dismissed as irrelevant

You can't bring back the past," he said. The words were filled with regret. "No," she agreed softly, "you can't. Today, this minute. Now is all that matters.

For the French] time...is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

We don't discuss death. Not that we avoid it. It's just that here, we're preoccupied with life.

Night again, the insects are loud, the moths are killing themselves on the lamp. Two hours ago I sat on the veranda looking out at the dusk, filled with envy for each living entity—bird, bug, blossom, reptile, tree, and vine—that doesn't bear the burden of the knowledge of good and evil. The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive