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Quotes about Living


Living from hand to mouth.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

The mother of all living.

Old Testament

The land of the living.

Old Testament

The house appointed for all living.

Old Testament

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Old Testament

When can a machine be also a living organism? When it is a piece of music.

He had got death over with, then. He was, in a sense, lucky. Perhaps posthumous life was better than the real thing. Oh God, yes, I remember Enderby, what a man. Eater, drinker, wencher, and such exotic adventures. You could go on living without all the trouble of still being alive. Your character got blurred and mingled with those of other dead men, wittier, handsomer, themselves more vital now that they were dead. And there was one’s work, good or bad, but still a death-cheater. It wasn’t death that was the that was the trouble, of course, it was dying.

The past is the only place worth living in

All art is risk and I think we have to accept that risk, hence accept living dangerously

It is the godlike task of the novelist to create human beings whom we accept as living creatures filled with complexities and armed with ´free will

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you're living in a mad world

I have had too much experience with revenants to scoff at the living traces the dead leave behind. Ghosts walk, no doubt about it

They were innocent, but we were all innocent then. We were living in the presence of evil and did not know it

Was not the law a raw head and bloody bones haunting the living? A man could oft, through the law's mediacy, rule stronger from the grave than in life

Dying is as expensive as living

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.

Writers of fiction often have difficulty in deciding between what really happened and what they imagine as having happened .. we lie for a living

The living had been too easy for him

Man is a living soul who must be tested in suffering and death

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Living on Earth includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

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