3,544 Quotes About Living

You know, it’s really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn’t know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn’t even know how to be dead.

It is said that [Shakespeare's] time was easier than ours, but I doubt it—no time can be easy if one is living through it.

Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all.

Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well? You were born with the habit of consuming time. Be satisfied with that.

He divided the inhabitants of the world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not.

I'm glad to get home, but I have no worry. If we are in a hurry we die in the outcome.

I haven't the courage, or perhaps the hardness, to withstand the tremendous pathos of this life. I love life's casual beauty- fear its awful strength.

The life lived vicariously, solely through the mind of another, is a life not lived at all.