Living Quotes

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

Good, Design, Same

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine

Emperor, Beggar, Buried

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia

Left, Hands, Grass

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese

Long, Two, Find

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon

Dead, Madness, Grief

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.
Dave Matthews

Lie, Days, Might

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
Hugh Jackman

Music, School, Idea

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
Shia LaBeouf

Life, Sometimes, Frightened

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville

Truth, Him, Try

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Death, Fear, Society

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire

Nature, Words, Him

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Marco Rubio

Government, Big, Desire

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Sting

Life, Death, Acceptance

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter

Dollar, Illiterate, Benefits

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Saint, Grueling

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Charles Kingsley

Nothing, Book, Wonderful

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J. B. Priestley

Life, Age, Before

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Casey Stengel

Learn, Times, Three

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland

Work, Women, Hate

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
Tim Tebow

Life, Faith, Great

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi

Good, Rock, Sex

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
Shia LaBeouf

Dad, Happy, Lose

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

Work, Human, Free

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein

Everything, Made, Else

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

Apathy, Oblivion

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Bryant H. McGill

Education, True, Through

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock

Time, Give, Idea

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
Cristiano Ronaldo

Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
Karl Lagerfeld

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