Top 100 Not To Live Quotes
#2. To your simple existence, do not boast;
merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.
The shore of the sea is but a ghost,
compared to the depth its wholeness gives.
You exist in the miry foam;
make the ocean depths your home.
Craig Froman
#3. Maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
Jodi Picoult
#4. I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God.
Patience Johnson
#5. I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.
Deepak Chopra
#6. Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.
Sri Chinmoy
#7. Do not believe that others will die, not you ... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
Mary Renault
#8. The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin
#9. Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
Morton Hunt
#10. When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are numbered, yet if the number of days in lives is numbered, are we not to live our everyday lives with that same zeal?
Forrest Curran
#11. We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.
John Seabrook
#12. There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.
Robert Breault
#13. You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann Hesse
#14. I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests.
Marlene Nall Johnt
#15. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.
Victor Hugo
#17. If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
Nathaniel Branden
#18. Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down ... go down swinging, singing, and loving.
Butch Walker
#19. A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.
M. Scott Peck
#20. To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.
Auberon Herbert
#21. I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Henry Miller
#23. To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Victor Hugo
#24. It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
Sophocles
#25. The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."
Gore Vidal
#26. Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.
Glenda Millard
#27. We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision!
Chuck Pagano
#28. It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.
Frances Noyes Hart
#29. Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
Rebecca Solnit
#30. I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.
Romola Garai
#31. Lord ... my goal is not to live forever but to live in thy favor forever. May you not only always bless me and my children in friendship & favor but may you also bless all our generations to come.
May we always walk in your light and do our best to bring praise to your holy name.
Amen.
Timothy Pina
#32. To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
Menander
#33. Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see.
Shirley Jackson
#34. He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.
Joseph Jackson
#36. It is possible to live by the works of God but not to live with Him.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
Graham Norton
#41. For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
Thomas Browne
#42. Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It's because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live.
Aidan Chambers
#43. It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
#45. How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it.
There was beauty out there ...
Louis L'Amour
#46. Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
#47. If there's no-one to show pleasure when you come home, then it's better not to live.
Magda Szabo
#48. I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.
Jane Levy
#49. Life is difficult more often that it is not. To live means to face difficulties. It's what you learn from those difficulties that matters.
Sigmund Brouwer
#50. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
Frederick Lenz
#51. And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
Chris Bohjalian
#52. The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.
Rebecca Solnit
#53. The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens
#54. But this is a thing that I know
to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
Deanna Raybourn
#55. My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
Juliette Binoche
#56. That the most honorable thing in life is not to live it selfishly, but to take risks for those we love.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. If we aren't focused on living life to the best of our ability, we're slowly dying a death that's of our own choosing. The odd thing is we get to pick the course we take. Why would someone choose not to live life at full capacity? Scott Hildreth, Unleashed
Scott Hildreth
#58. Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
Charles Spurgeon
#59. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic - but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.
Audrey Hepburn
#60. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#61. Not to live a kingdom life is to live a wasted life
Sunday Adelaja
#62. We all need something to struggle against and to struggle for. The aim in life is not to avoid struggles, but to have the right ones; not to avoid worry, but to care about the right things; not to live without fear, but to confront worthy fears with force and
Eric Greitens
#63. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able - be good. 18.
Marcus Aurelius
#64. I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.
Jennifer Connelly
#65. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#66. You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.
Ralph Marston
#67. And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#68. A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason ... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
#69. #Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long ... it's to live!
Milan Jed
#71. The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
Adam Baldwin
#72. In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their life, sporadically, only at my bidding.
Albert Camus
#73. The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
Andy Warhol
#74. Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives.
M.F. Moonzajer
#75. From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#76. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#77. If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?
Noam Chomsky
#78. Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.
John Lennon
#79. Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.
Santosh Kalwar
#80. The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
Louise Bernikow
#81. Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
#82. I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.
William T. Vollmann
#83. Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
Victor Hugo
#84. I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me
Jamie Ford
#85. Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.
Martha Hunt
#86. What stops you here is what stops your entire life.
The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#87. Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
Franz Marc
#88. The trick is not how much pain you feel
but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Erica Jong
#89. I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.
Andrew Krivak
#90. Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind ... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#91. Every night it's the same ... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish ... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!
Charles M. Schulz
#92. There's nothing so rude as a gift you don't use or a life that you choose not to live. 'Cause you're blessed to bless and the best of possessions is having something to give.
Carolyn Arends
#93. I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.
Jamie Ford
#94. To my son Dylan.
I've written this book for you.
It's a guide for how not to live your life.
I'm sending it out into the world in the hopes
that someday it will find you.
Even if I never do.
All my love,
Dad
Carolee Dean
#95. People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
Chesley Sullenberger
#96. It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
Jack London
#97. If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals,
Jose Saramago
#98. Life is given to me only once, and never will be again - I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#100. If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
Yul Vazquez
