Top 39 Living Not Surviving Quotes
#1. I spend my time living. Not surviving. And I don't help everyone. Just people who happen to need me at a time I can help them.
Amy Impellizzeri
#2. Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
Jarvis Cocker
#3. A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#5. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
Jack London
#6. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
Tilda Swinton
#7. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.
Anne Calhoun
#8. Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.
Simone De Beauvoir
#9. Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
Simon Van Booy
#10. Natural, organic and unrefined foods speak a language your genes understand. And when your food communicates nicely with your genes, they'll express themselves properly and healthily so you can begin feeling that you're actually living and not just surviving.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#11. He said I wasn't living. I was just surviving. And you know one thing, he's right
Michael Scott
#12. You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.
Anne Bishop
#14. Life is not all about surviving it is all about living.
Me
#15. The entire world is surviving only due to 'beliefs', not because of 'Knowledge' (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
Adrienne Rich
#18. Ye are different, Emma. I doona need ye in order to survive. But surviving is no' the same as living. Or the same as feeling human again. I am alive when I'm with you. Ye feed my soul. (Angus MacKay)
Kerrelyn Sparks
#20. We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
Janet Macunovich
#21. I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.
Julie Anne Peters
#22. Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.
Everything was different.
Sarah Morgan
#23. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
Jack London
#24. My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.
Leela Corman
#25. I felt torn
Between living and dying
Between sleeping and surviving.
Stacy Morris
#26. Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well
here is the truth
you have to talk yourself out of it.
Chris Cleave
#27. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.
Tim Cahill
#28. Surviving is about need. Living is about want.
Dan Groat
#29. When you live for yourself you are merely surviving; when you live for others you are really living.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Living is giving ... If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.
Timothy Keller
#32. Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
David Moody
#33. It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. This the kind of world, if you don't die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.
J. California Cooper
#35. Certainly survival is important - very important - but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.
SARK
#36. The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#37. What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts
#39. 'The Night of the Living Dead' zombies, I think I might have a shot at surviving. If they're the fast ones, I may have well just give up.
Michael Spradlin
