Living Quotes

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the '60s. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us. She deserves our care in return.

Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.