Living Quotes

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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolaño

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Charles Lindbergh

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather, and your own rate of living.

I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

Swami Vivekananda

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Julio Cortázar

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Fortunately art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Booth Tarkington

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Nicholas Negroponte