Quotes About Living

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

When Jesus called his followers "the salt of the earth," he was telling them that they were irreplaceable, and that their mission was to give people what makes life worth living.

You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died. -Raistlin Majere

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.

the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams and along the coasts. Every movement in byre and bunny-hole, of leaf against leaf, of germ in soil and stream, turns and gleams and laminates every other, the whole world monstrously fancy, laced tight together, yet slopping over and unraveling in every direction, a grand brilliant wastage of the living an the dying.

One might say that instead of regarding psychoanalysis primarily as a therapeutic method, Lacan envisions it as a profoundly philosophical undertaking that—a bit like traditional renderings of the art of living—possesses the potential to revise the subject's perception of the basic orientation of its existence.

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations.

Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

Aren't you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

A life without some regret is probably a life that wasn't lived to its fullest.

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

I am living. I remember you.

This is what the living do.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.