Existing But Not Living Quotes

#1. Commercialism and the mad desire to make money have blotted out everything else, and as a result we are not living, but merely existing.

Joseph Knowles

#2. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Dan Groat

#3. To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

Pier Giorgio Frassati

#4. It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living ... To live is to find out for yourself what is true ...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. When did she lose her wonder? When did she start existing and quit living?

Denise Daisy

#6. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.

Richard Matheson

#7. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.

Gerber Michael E.

#8. Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

Van Day Truex

#9. Living is more often than not, existing.
I want to be alive, with love, joy, and be exciting.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Existing is not quite enough. Passionate living is the best revenge.

Arlaina Tibensky

#11. A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

Markus Zusak

#12. You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

Lionel Suggs

#13. And as I stand up and take that breath I can feel that being here is no static thing. We are not just existing at a time when an old, unworkable world is dying, but we are living as a new one struggles for birth.

Lois Hart

#14. Living is not existing but to live with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Tired, not just of living, but of existing.

Veronica Roth

#16. Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.

Joseph Epstein

#17. Productivity is not what will bring purpose to your life, but what will enable you to excel in living out your existing purpose.

Tim Challies

#18. Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

Ellen Hopkins

#19. If safety is my goal, living life is not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

Fred Gallagher