Life-and-living Quotes

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away...

How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing i...

But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will ac...

When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad n...

Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & fal...

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a gu...

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. An...

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hour...

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to h...

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it lo...

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your la...

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his d...

everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no c...

Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable Quote“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coac...

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ...

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l...

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without know...

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swall...

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will thi...

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country ...

...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot gue...

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise the...

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people th...

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels s...

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-...

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that ...

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in qu...

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrang...

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have ni...

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

...[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in t...

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead ...

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of g...

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and ju...

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the...

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad o...

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...

I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and wit...

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the thi...

It takes life to live life

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I re...

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s ...

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that...

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable b...

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons...

I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless ride...

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

So many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply a...

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product...

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our har...

A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams",so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life giv...

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If ...

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

No house is big enough for the rule of two women.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead,...

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward....

Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that ou...

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us f...

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdas...

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the t...

All I want now is to look at life.

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other...

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave ...

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean...

Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in t...

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

One who has hope lives differently.

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn ear...

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to ...

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to lea...

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody kno...

Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, ...

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, ...