Living Quotes
Only the living can learn from their mistakes.
It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead
The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.
If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to.
Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments.
We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Everyone dies but not everyone truly lives.
There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.
When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.
...death is inevitable for all of us. The only thing that really matters in the end is how we choose to live.
But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan
But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437
Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.
Sometimes wisdom dictates that you take a few steps backwards to be able to go much further
Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.
Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.
Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?
You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate.
There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.
How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.
I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
If you say yes when you mean no, you are not being authentic, or true to yourself, to who you really are. You are not living your life, you are trying to fit in with someone else's.
