Top 100 Done Living Quotes

#1. When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,' Renata

Alan Furst

Done Living Quotes #101637
#2. The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself
sublimely helpless and impotent
I had done living I thought
Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones,
that there seemed no room for tears.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Done Living Quotes #519756
#3. I am done living my life in the confines of others' dreams, waiting to live my own.

Anne Osterlund

Done Living Quotes #655057
#4. I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

Bethany Wiggins

Done Living Quotes #713513
#5. I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

Shailene Woodley

Done Living Quotes #1270843
#6. As someone who never followed rules, as someone who did everything she could to avoid them, I was done living by Marin's law. I needed Brent now. I would have him back. And soon.

Abigail Baker

Done Living Quotes #1284025
#7. What does waiting do? None of us are promised a tomorrow ... We don't always get a later." He kissed my temple again, then pulled back, his eyes finding mine. "I'm done living like we do.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Done Living Quotes #1475961
#8. I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Done Living Quotes #1499594
#9. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

Done Living Quotes #2076
#10. You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.

Margo Lanagan

Done Living Quotes #21053
#11. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

James W. Loewen

Done Living Quotes #22910
#12. You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

David Longstreth

Done Living Quotes #77235
#13. I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Oliver Stone

Done Living Quotes #82793
#14. Advice to a Separated Couple - My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.

Ellen G. White

Done Living Quotes #127373
#15. Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

George Lucas

Done Living Quotes #142436
#16. You haven't done your best yet because you haven't seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven't seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Done Living Quotes #166594
#17. To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

Marianne Williamson

Done Living Quotes #166672
#18. Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.

Morris Gleitzman

Done Living Quotes #178380
#19. I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

- Oromis

Christopher Paolini

Done Living Quotes #188892
#20. It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Done Living Quotes #240356
#21. Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Gustave Flaubert

Done Living Quotes #260466
#22. And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.
Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together ... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.

Anne Bartlett

Done Living Quotes #270982
#23. The main work of haunting is done by the living

Judith Richardson

Done Living Quotes #280782
#24. No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

Theodore Roosevelt

Done Living Quotes #285189
#25. Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

Bertrand Russell

Done Living Quotes #286132
#26. The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.

James Baldwin

Done Living Quotes #288543
#27. I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.

Marya Hornbacher

Done Living Quotes #328033
#28. As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Done Living Quotes #406202
#29. I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.

Christian Boltanski

Done Living Quotes #434181
#30. He didn't require some eighteen-year-old to make his cock hard. He wanted a woman, one with lines in her face that said she'd done some living and had learned to cry. And to laugh.

Cherise Sinclair

Done Living Quotes #436020
#31. The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated myselfout of living in the moment, and I'll bet I die with a lot left over.

Lois P Frankel

Done Living Quotes #450902
#32. I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

Ving Rhames

Done Living Quotes #462662
#33. When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Jack Welch

Done Living Quotes #508198
#34. I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

Charles Durning

Done Living Quotes #577429
#35. In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

David Sanborn

Done Living Quotes #609072
#36. Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

Jordan Ghere

Done Living Quotes #609078
#37. The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

David Bayles

Done Living Quotes #628268
#38. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

Alexandre Dumas

Done Living Quotes #628884
#39. No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Arthur Helps

Done Living Quotes #682283
#40. Golden Rule Living is the great simplifier. It places us in another soul's shoes, taking what can appear to be a com- plex decision that involves another and streamlining it to a one-step process of deciding, If I wouldn't like this done to me, then I shall not do it to another.

Molly Friedenfeld

Done Living Quotes #688934
#41. No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I can remind you of things that went on in your life so you go, man I had that happen to me. I've been there. I've done that.

Larry Winget

Done Living Quotes #692225
#42. It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

Joanna Cassidy

Done Living Quotes #765550
#43. The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"
the only living root.

Henry Van Dyke

Done Living Quotes #771001
#44. Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Done Living Quotes #786577
#45. So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

Cassandra Clare

Done Living Quotes #791550
#46. We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Done Living Quotes #802512
#47. It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts ...

Thomas Paine

Done Living Quotes #841208
#48. Watching my parents, I watched the meaning change, of what it was that undertakers do: From something done with the dead, to something done for the living, to something done by the living - everyone of us.

Thomas Lynch

Done Living Quotes #841618
#49. I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

Cameron Mackintosh

Done Living Quotes #866600
#50. Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

Harold Nicolson

Done Living Quotes #867980
#51. There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

Carew Papritz

Done Living Quotes #868099
#52. Laughing isn't wrong if it's done out of happiness. Dreaming is essential because it gives us wings, and forgetting...well, there's a difference between living and forgetting.

Laura Bradford

Done Living Quotes #885563
#53. It's done with ink on a piece of paper. That girl isn't lying there on the counter. She's thousands of miles away, doesn't even know we're alive. If this was a real girl, all I'd have to do for a living would be to stay home and cut out pictures of big fish.

Kurt Vonnegut

Done Living Quotes #899446
#54. In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

Lee Hall

Done Living Quotes #940463
#55. While we're young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer's done we might not be so young and beautiful.

Carrie Underwood

Done Living Quotes #941735
#56. You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Conor Oberst

Done Living Quotes #942577
#57. Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how we EAT folks! This is how it's done!

Nancy S. Mure

Done Living Quotes #970846
#58. Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.

Chris Chocola

Done Living Quotes #985656
#59. I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time ... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Jason Robert Brown

Done Living Quotes #1003762
#60. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.

Samantha Leahy

Done Living Quotes #1007477
#61. Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

Junot Diaz

Done Living Quotes #1024427
#62. We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Done Living Quotes #1056778
#63. You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

Elizabeth Taylor

Done Living Quotes #1080909
#64. This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.

Lee Roberson

Done Living Quotes #1091801
#65. Dreams don't get done until they are due.

Richie Norton

Done Living Quotes #1107219
#66. I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.

Gilbert Gottfried

Done Living Quotes #1123189
#67. A long-standing commitment to living in the present - because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a fickle bitch.

River Jaymes

Done Living Quotes #1123964
#68. Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?"
"I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?"
"I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Done Living Quotes #1213461
#69. What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.

Michel Houellebecq

Done Living Quotes #1238191
#70. The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.

Janette Oke

Done Living Quotes #1247992
#71. It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

Alesha Dixon

Done Living Quotes #1264889
#72. I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Brian Wilson

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#73. These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

Mel Brooks

Done Living Quotes #1277915
#74. For a radical Jihadist, this fight is all about dying the right way while killing an infidel. For us, it's all about living the right way because all the dying necessary was done for us two thousand years ago on a hill called Calvary.

Oliver North

Done Living Quotes #1298768
#75. People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

Greg Louganis

Done Living Quotes #1303422
#76. Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets. What might we have done differently if we'd known the end was so near?

Kerri Maniscalco

Done Living Quotes #1308967
#77. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought;

Victor Hugo

Done Living Quotes #1357897
#78. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Chuck Grassley

Done Living Quotes #1360199
#79. Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

Tom Hodgkinson

Done Living Quotes #1374467
#80. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.

Carolyn Baker

Done Living Quotes #1391307
#81. Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Done Living Quotes #1416976
#82. One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'

Philip Connors

Done Living Quotes #1417276
#83. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?

Joyce Carol Oates

Done Living Quotes #1437142
#84. We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.

Howard Dully

Done Living Quotes #1465165
#85. Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

Sarah Rafferty

Done Living Quotes #1472567
#86. Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night.

Cindy Woodsmall

Done Living Quotes #1504435
#87. What goes around comes around"
"the word you are looking is (Karma)meaning
what bad you have done to someone else. Be careful it will come back in another way at its own time and you wont even realize it.

RICARDO RANDY RAMNATH

Done Living Quotes #1516490
#88. Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

Rachel Bloom

Done Living Quotes #1524395
#89. I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Lin Yutang

Done Living Quotes #1567717
#90. Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

Mary Blakely

Done Living Quotes #1580528
#91. He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.

Laini Taylor

Done Living Quotes #1598699
#92. The idea of living with someone scares me senseless. I've done it before for five years, and I shut down to cope with it. I don't want to give up myself again. I hope to find someone who is happy just to continue "as is" without expectations. (Kes)

Rudy Simone

Done Living Quotes #1604153
#93. He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Walter Raleigh

Done Living Quotes #1607027
#94. The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done ... Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.

Rachel Carson

Done Living Quotes #1624025
#95. I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

Ali MacGraw

Done Living Quotes #1636641
#96. The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Done Living Quotes #1637985
#97. What is a life?" Scapegrace continued. "Is life merely living? Is it having a heartbeat? Or is life the effect you have on others? Is it the effect you have on the world around you? If so, what have I done with mine? How have I wasted it?

Derek Landy

Done Living Quotes #1706029
#98. Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires
if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.

Ernest Holmes

Done Living Quotes #1713544
#99. We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

Robert Wyatt

Done Living Quotes #1774863
#100. Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

John Grisham

Done Living Quotes #1791877

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