Live Quotes

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Socrates

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Author Unknown

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

Maria Mitchell

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

James Joyce

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Sheridan

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Dorothy Parke

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Mark Duffy

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus