The Living Quotes

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Words matter, words have import.

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

We are what we are.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.