3,544 Quotes About Living
- Author Joan Didion
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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.
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- Author Sophie Scholl
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It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
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- Author Mark X.
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We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
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- Author George Alexiou
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We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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You honor the dead by honoring the living.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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The dead cannot preach to the living, and the living cannot preach to the dead.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.
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