Live Quotes

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Maria Mitchell

Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

We live in a rainbow of Chaos.

Paul Cezanne

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - Especially their lives.

Eugene V. Debs

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walke

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Edwin Markham

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurbe

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.

Jack London

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

A. L. Prusick

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin