Quotes About Living

Live your life, Patrick said, dont endure it

Live your life, Louise," Patrick said, "don't endure it.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectual mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

I'm sick of this society. Earn a living as if I'm not yet living; lobotomized and robotized from birth, they tell me I can't do anything I want to do in the subtlest and sneakiest ways possible. They want to erase all possible hints that I've been born. I have two centers: love and my desire to sleep.

I'm sick of this society. 'Earn a living' as if I'm not yet living; lobotomized and robotized from birth, they tell me I can't do anything I want to do in the subtlest and sneakiest ways possible.

The humor, however, was a bit more in the recounting than in the actual living through it. Unfortunately, this resistance to taking lithium is played out in the lives of tens of thousands of patients every year.

It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time. Everything must be so much more…

It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time.

I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn't know better.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all. I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one.

hundred million Europeans were living on fifteen hundred calories a day—the level at which health begins to suffer from malnutrition. As

I adore you' she said. 'When you go, I'll cry. But I'm not going to spoil today by being miserable about tomorrow

Sin embargo, no había pensado en las consecuencias; en lugar de eso, había vivido el momento tal como debería hacer todo el mundo.

Good wood was better than silver, he had liked to say, because it was harder to steal. "We've got nothing left, and no way to make a living," Edgar said. "What on earth are we going to do?

living in that foggy, jumbled blur which is a whole lot like the ragged edge of sleep, that gray zone between light and dark, or between sleeping and waking or living and dying, where you know you're not unconscious anymore don't know yet what day it is or who you are or what's the use of coming back at all...

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.