3,544 Quotes About Living

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. But sometimes it doesn't feel like I am doing it fast enough, or hard enough, or all the way. And it is times like that when I can understand wanting a cigarette in my hand, then my mouth, then my hand again. Holding the cigarette. Tending to the cigarette. Giving the cigarette what it needs. Tapping it in the ashtray. Sucking on it.Then flicking it in the street, like it meant nothing to me.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day

I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

The true responsible will do whatever it takes to hold each droplet accountable when the stormwater inundates the fences of our living. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness" )