Live Quotes

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.

Author Unknown

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Prove

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Mille

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...

Dorothy Thompson