Top 480 Living Quotes

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
David Schwimmer
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
Laura Dekker
Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.
Pamela Anderson
I feel like I’ve set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
Aaron Rodgers
There’s fear or faith. If you’re living by fear, then you’re always looking for security. If you’re living by faith, then you’re always looking for freedom.
William Hurt
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
I prefer living in color.
David Hockney
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Neil Gaiman
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh
Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Susan Lieberman
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
Hattie McDaniel
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.
Elizabeth May
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Ernst Mayr
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
Bob Latta
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
Pietro Aretino
We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.
Greta Thunburg
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
Jessalyn Gilsig
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
Frank Wedekind
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Ursula Andress
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking

I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
Nora Ephron
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard P. Feynman
I don’t think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That’s not living.
RuPaul
Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.
Meryl Streep
I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of.
Kylian Mbappe
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
I’m not completely sure we aren’t all living in a hallucination now.
Marc Maron
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
William J. Clinton
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Robert Trout
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Romain Rolland
The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.
Marilyn Monroe
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert Bresson
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
Rick Warren
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
John Ortberg
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
William Shakespeare
We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
Lemmy
People often ask me if I believe in God, and I kinda have to, because I’m still here. I had not planned on living this long, and here I am.
Joe Walsh
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
Edward Lear
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
Frei Otto
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
James Nesbitt
I had been living with my family in France as COVID was starting to spiral out of control in Europe. I said to my wife that maybe they should come back to the States with me because I was worried about getting separated.
Aaron Dessner
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Antonin Scalia
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don’t have any human or mammalian instincts. They’ll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There’s no empathy – none.
Guillermo del Toro
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
Joel Fuhrman