Top 100 The Living Quotes
#1. Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#2. [She] and I were giving each other the only thing we truly have to offer: our time. We were going to give each other the living minutes of our life.
Ethan Hawke
#4. Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.
Robert Christian
#5. If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.
Charles Spurgeon
#6. To live is to be other. Even feeling is impossible if one feels today what one felt yesterday, for that is not to feel, it is only to remember today what one felt yesterday, to be the living corpse of yesterday's lost life.
Fernando Pessoa
#7. Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
Robert Jordan
#8. This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
Tryon Edwards
#9. Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#10. I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around.
Anthony Greer
#11. Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
#12. The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Bruce Lee
#13. We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.
Wally Hickel
#14. I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
Lauryn Hill
#15. As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
#16. I believe The Bible is the infallible inspired inerrant Word of The Living God and scientifically accurate in every detail.
Kent Hovind
#17. Far from being parasitic exploiters of the workers, most businessmen were innovators looking to outwit their rivals, by doing things better or cheaper, and in doing so they inevitably brought improvements to the living standards of consumers. Most
Matt Ridley
#18. The world of the living was obscene. I was powerless to do anything.
Haruki Murakami
#19. What is the greatest wonder in the world?
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#20. It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer
#21. God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power ... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.
Ellen G. White
#22. I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
Kahlil Gibran
#23. I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. I wanted to dance. I wanted to be swept up in the long desert night, sending a farewell to the fallen and embracing the living.
Rachel E. Carter
#25. A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
John Locke
#26. Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.
Heather Brewer
#27. I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#28. We have a saying up here. 'Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
#29. When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
Friedrich Schiller
#30. I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
Robin Marantz Henig
#31. Vanessa Rey chose the words for her own headstone, taking her theme from the Bhagavad Gita. "Certain is death, for the living, certain is life, for the dead." Think about that.
Mike Carey
#32. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
#33. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
Alice Sebold
#34. Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
Emily Dickinson
#35. When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
#36. She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory.
Ayn Rand
#37. Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.
Lawren Leo
#38. That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no confidence on those which are fathered on the dead.
Thomas Browne
#39. Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
Cass McCombs
#40. I was beginning to die myself. I realized that a person could actually become one of the living dead; could go on living but feel nothing, not pain, not fear, not sorrow. I was very near to this state.
Alicia Appleman
#41. Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Darkness has conquered the day; the arms of the night slapped the living daylight off the day.Gripping. Killing. Totally overwhelming. The taste of darkness bitters my mouth
as I struggled against unnumbered foes.
Chika Onyenezi
#43. I stumble downstairs unsure, but hopeful to find more masturbation material. When I find the living room completely quiet and empty, I almost shed a tear.
Sadie Grubor
#44. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#45. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
David
Jeana Kendrick
#46. Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.
Edmund Clowney
#47. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.
Pope John Paul II
#48. Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'
Rob Manuel
#49. But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who aren't jerks, you should not just take it, but grab it, seize it, squeeze the living hell out of it.
Clinton Kelly
#50. So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#51. Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you.
E.L. James
#53. If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around you everywhere. Who are you? You are among the living, but can you be certain?
Susan Griffin
#54. Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..
Janet Morris
#55. The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
Primo Levi
#56. I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
Chuck D
#57. There were so many dead their spirits could no longer be contained in the darkness, and, like deer, their population had spilled over into parts of the town reserved for the living.
Daniel Wallace
#58. I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R R Martin
#59. Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#60. I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.
William Wordsworth
#61. What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.
Philip K. Dick
#62. When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
George Eliot
#63. DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world,
Bill Bryson
#65. To get along with God,
Consider the consequences of your behavior.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Octavia E. Butler
#67. Just beneath our feet, on the other side of the surface of the earth, there is another, subterranean Enon, which conceals its secret business by conducting it too slowly for its purposes to be observed by the living.
Paul Harding
#68. Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always
the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.
Anthony Doerr
#70. The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done ... Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
Rachel Carson
#72. People dont want to hear about that, dont want to entertain it. Vast numbers will watch two naked girls online shit in a cup then eat it, but babies enjoying the living hell out of breasts as a supreme source of endless free nourishment and good health for all remains taboo.
Elisa Albert
#74. Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God.
Witness Lee
#75. In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
George Mikes
#76. Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
Sun Ra
#77. I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so ... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.
H. Rider Haggard
#79. My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
Dikembe Mutombo
#80. Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
Boris Sidis
#81. Sometimes she plays a game now where she scatters her stuffed animals all over the living room. "Babies, babies," she mutters darkly as she covers them with white napkins. "Civil War Battlefield," we call it.
Jenny Offill
#82. Go, then, go while you can. Go to your hot stew and your loaves of thyme bread. There's never time to mourn the dead while the business of the living continues. ~ Conor
Lisa Ann Verge
#83. 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
#84. Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss
Richard Cecil
#85. I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
Ted Danson
#86. They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
Ann Aguirre
#87. The dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other
W.S. Merwin
#88. It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe ... But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.
Neil Gaiman
#89. We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.
Peace Pilgrim
#90. Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.
Joy Williams
#91. There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men - all are dead.
Gene Wolfe
#92. I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
Anna Quindlen
#93. The dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.
Michael G. Williams
#94. Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
#95. These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.
Athanasius
#96. Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
F.B. Meyer
#97. I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.
Suzanne M. Wolfe
#98. Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
Bob Latta
#99. Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times as you kiss His chest, This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this is the heart of my soul;
nothing will ever separate me from His love.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#100. After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.
Nirmala Srivastava
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