living Quotes

“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:living

“Now, my dear husband, you must have a vacation every year, and make me climb some dangerous mountains, because I need to run the risk of being alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

topic:living risk

“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:death thought living

“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

topic:reality living

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hope living waiting

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:happiness living

“You’re mine . . . Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:death living

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:hate living

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:nature living

“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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