Top 80 Die Without Living Quotes

#1. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Bernie Siegel

#2. People die because they find living too painful.

Malcolm Fraser

#3. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

Brad Warner

#4. Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

Stephenie Meyer

#6. William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their sweet spot are people who take the inward journey and examine themselves. They make the choice to live until they die.

Scott M. Fay

#7. It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die. 'Cause I don't know what's up there, beyond the sky.

Sam Cooke

#8. Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

George Wald

#9. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Stephen Levine

#10. But then this morning I had to tell him goodbye. And he held me and kissed me so much, I thought I might die if he let go.
But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing.
Just barely.

Colleen Hoover

#11. Success is not a luxury. It's a must. Succeed or die

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.

Katelin LaMontagne

#13. But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Rebecca Skloot

#14. Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can't just think 'I'm going to die anyway', because that's what's stopping us from moving forward.

Queen Latifah

#15. I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.

Annie Dillard

#17. Unless you learn to wrap your brain around the fact that you are eventually going to die, you'll never wrap your arms around the fact that you are currently living.

Ty Roth

#18. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

Michael Scott

#19. I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

Courtney Schafer

#20. As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.

Marlon Riggs

#21. To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Jose Saramago

#22. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.

Alvin Conway

#23. Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Saul Bellow

#24. I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.

Crystal Evans

#25. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

#26. You have to start living your life for the future that you're alive for, not the past the you're willing to die for.

Harper Sloan

#27. Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#28. Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

Mike Epps

#29. What if you never meet him?
Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.
Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.

L.M. Montgomery

#30. So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don't have life; they only refuse to keep breathing!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.

Haruki Murakami

#32. I was trying to take the easy way out by running away from everything. No matter the pain, I will keep living. So when I die, I'll feel I did the best I could.

Koala

#33. Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Willis Polk

#34. Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Magic Johnson

#35. The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live?

S.M. Reine

#36. Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

William Cowper

#37. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.

Mitch Albom

#38. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett

#39. Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Julia Child

#40. You Can't Live If You Can't Die

Craig L. Delue

#41. We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.

Steve Earle

#42. Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.

William Shakespeare

#43. But there's such a thing as a way of living that's guided by the way a person's going to die.

Haruki Murakami

#44. Yes
or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#45. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel Burnham

#46. We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charlie Chaplin

#47. There is no greatness in dying for love, Raakha, she wanted to say. Those who die untimely, violent deaths don't become ashes. They become guilty scars on the flesh of the living. They become wounds that never heal no matter how much time passes.

Manjul Bajaj

#48. First we die, the woman says. "Then our bodies are buried. So we die two deaths." "Then in another world, folded inside the living world, we wait. We wait until everyone who knew us when we were children has died. And then the last of them dies, we finally die our third death.

Anthony Doerr

#49. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#50. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

Victoria Moran

#51. We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt

#52. Just living until you die is hard work,

Charles Bukowski

#53. We live as if we will never die.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes De Mille

#55. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#56. geniza is that these works, like people, are living things, possessing an element of the sacred about them - and therefore when they "die," or become worn out, they must be honored and protected from profanation.

Adina Hoffman

#57. The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

Hakan Nesser

#58. Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

Tian Dayton

#59. True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Bryant H. McGill

#60. Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it." Gazing

Dean Koontz

#61. Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.

Kate Atkinson

#62. I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

Bethany Wiggins

#63. You are born to love and live; don't die without living.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

Bryant McGill

#65. I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

Celia Cruz

#66. We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Laurie Colwin

#67. When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

Dean Koontz

#68. Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Victoria Moran

#69. Love isn't safe and life isn't guaranteed. So yeah, I could die and you could lose Levi and your heart could hurt again, but that's just life. The only alternative is living without fully loving anyone else. And that's not living at all.

Chelsea Fine

#70. ...to live and to die. Can living just for the sake of living, without having any objectives, be categorized as truely living? Or is it simply another form of death?

Tadashi Kawashima

#71. I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living.

Karen Marie Moning

#72. People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.

Fola

#73. Fear is flooding over me, like water.
The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life.

Mesa Selimovic

#74. People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically

Sunday Adelaja

#75. You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without evn knowing that's what he's doing.

Marguerite Duras

#76. No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

Banana Yoshimoto

#77. Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Victor Hugo

#78. The saddest thing in life is to die without living.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.

Sanjo Jendayi

#80. The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Samuel Smiles

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