Living Quotes

Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Accept your life long experience. That is your true wealth.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Thank you, Lord, WOW What a Ride!"

There is no point in living if you don't feel alive.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

“Most men die at 25, we just don’t bury them until they are 70.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

My burden is living for those who didn't.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.