Quotes About Living Vs Existing

#1. 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.

#2. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

J'son M. Lee

#3. It's the simple things in life that comprise the difference between existing and living.
(from blog post on October 26, 2013, original content)

Cora Carmack

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

Arlaina Tibensky

#5. Get a better job, Harve. Ask for a raise. Good Lord, we aren't living. We're existing!

Gil Brewer

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

Debasish Mridha

#7. Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Johnny Depp

#8. When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

Eyedea

#10. He thought he'd lived through everything. Only now did he realise he'd merely existed.

Dianna Hardy

#11. Stop existing and start living!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. He feels he isn't so much living as he is merely existing,

Hanya Yanagihara

#13. This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid. They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not to be able to keep alive?

Upton Sinclair

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

Van Day Truex

#15. Existing sucks living is the ride of your life.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#16. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Carolyn Brown

#17. 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

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

Denise Daisy

#19. One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.

Sai Marie Johnson

#20. 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

#21. When I was in the desert, I woke each day and carried on with my life, but it wasn't living; it was merely existing. I want to live. You are where I live.

Renee Ahdieh

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

Pier Giorgio Frassati

#23. A lazy writer (it's easy to hate things) or a versatile one? I don't believe in an afterlife. We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.

Lindy West

#24. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Emile Zola

#25. It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#26. I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall.

Rainbowbrook

#27. I wasn't living. I was just existing.

Laurann Dohner

#28. 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

#29. A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

Leo Buscaglia

#30. 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