Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
Lawrence Halprin

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.
Richard Pryor

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Taylor Caldwell

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
Paula Poundstone

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante Alighieri

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
Steven Tyler

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor