Top 100 Don't Want To Live Quotes
#1. We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
Muhammad Ali
#2. The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.
Rudy Giuliani
#3. I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
Woody Allen
#4. You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
Bill Bryson
#5. I LOVE horror movies, man... I just don't want to LIVE in one.
D.X. Stone
#6. But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don't want to live in that world.
Katherine Boo
#7. I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.
Cilla Black
#8. I don't want to live in a world without Augusts Waters
John Green
#9. Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.
John Gallagher Jr.
#10. I don't want to live in a place that saves my body but destroys my soul.
Manel Loureiro
#11. I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.
Nicholas Sparks
#12. I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.
Andy Roddick
#13. I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
Claire Denis
#14. I should have told you? I did tell you. I said, 'I can't do this anymore.' I said "I love you, but I'm not sure it's enough, i"m not sure it will ever be enough.' I said, 'I don't want to live like this, Georgie'
remember?
Rainbow Rowell
#15. I don't want to belong to anyone but myself. I don't want to live anyone's life but my own.
And I do not fit into Jenny Dawson's life. I've known it from the very beginning.
But damned if it didn't feel like she was just starting to fit into mine.
Lauren Layne
#16. And it's not that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live any more. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home.
Nick Hornby
#17. I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.
Diane Kruger
#18. I love you so much ... I don't want to live a single moment without you at my side.
Lara Adrian
#19. So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life.
Sylvia Plath
#20. I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen
#21. When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you'll also attract haters. I'm okay with that; I welcome it. I don't want to live life as a spectator. I've learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game.
Steve Maraboli
#22. If you don't want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus
Sunday Adelaja
#23. I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist ... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.
Billy Corgan
#24. We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above ...
Robert J. Morgan
#25. I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.
Linda Dillow
#26. I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'
Angela Kinsey
#27. Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
Sara Zarr
#28. Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been. I don't want to live in the past anymore. I'm so lonely here, there's nothing for me here anymore.
Stephanie Smith
#29. The only man who is right for you is the one you don't want to live without.
Melissa Foster
#32. My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!
Gaston Gaudio
#34. People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
Haruki Murakami
#35. Oh!' Said Sunny, and everyone knew what she meant. She meant, 'What a terrible place! I don't want to live there at all!
Lemony Snicket
#36. I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be.
Tegan Quin
#37. I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.
Richard Benjamin
#38. I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
John Taylor Gatto
#39. I don't want to live here. I want my old life back and I'll do anything for it.
M.M. Lindelo
#41. Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
Jonathan Rosen
#42. I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#43. I don't want to live in a country where a government decides if you were raped or not.
Lady Gaga
#44. I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.
Charlize Theron
#45. I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
Helen Keller
#46. I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded,
Edward Snowden
#47. I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.
Louis O. Kelso
#48. Pinn just won a medal for intelligence,' Frey said, shaking his head as he clapped. 'I don't want to live on this planet any more.
Chris Wooding
#49. I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
Theodore Kaczynski
#50. And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
Donna Leon
#51. I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.
Edward Snowden
#52. It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
Patrick Fugit
#53. I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.
Lucille Ball
#54. If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.
Alan Arkin
#55. I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
#56. Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.
Peter Bergen
#57. I don't want to live in the strongest country in the world, I want to live in the freest.
Brian Preston
#58. I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.
Joshua Cohen
#59. Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.
Danielle Brooks
#60. I love museums but I don't want to live in one.
Tim Cook
#61. Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.
John Ashbery
#62. Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
Hugh Prather
#63. This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.
Marina And The Diamonds
#64. I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#65. I don't want to die, but I don't want to live either. I'm scared to live and scared to die.
Keiko Suenobu
#66. To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that we don't, can't, will never matter ... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter.
Rebecca Goldstein
#67. I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
#68. I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.
Rickie Fowler
#69. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
Charles De Lint
#70. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
John Lydon
#71. I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn't be living in the moment.
Charlize Theron
#72. If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#73. I don't want to live on past records.
Barry Gibb
#74. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
Kay Hooper
#75. I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
Abel Ferrara
#76. I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past
I want to live now!
Mia Hamm
#77. It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.
Carrie Fisher
#78. I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.
Agathe Snow
#79. When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
Mel Gibson
#80. If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
George Michael
#81. ... our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.
Alice Notley
#82. I mean, who wants to live waking up ... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
Mitchell Baker
#83. I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.
Edward Abbey
#84. I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world ... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.
Diane Lane
#85. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?
Neale Donald Walsch
#86. In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.
David Levithan
#87. The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#88. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata
#89. Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Werner Herzog
#90. I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals.
Dick Dale
#92. I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Edward Snowden
#93. You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.
Rihanna
#95. There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.
Brian Hugh Warner
#96. I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
Betty Smith
#97. I don't want to live my life in such a hurry that I'm always closing the fridge door with my foot and scribbling out birthday cards in my car at the last minute. I want to make bread, or at least find the time to toast it.
Emily P. Freeman
#98. Aren't you worn out from running?" His lips follow a tear down my neck, and then he brushes my face with his hand. "I don't want to live without you another day. I'm begging you for another chance. Please.
Willow Aster
#99. I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.
Niall Horan
#100. I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
Sting
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