Wanted To Live Quotes

#1. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

#2. I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.

Melanie Benjamin

#3. No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live! "Lia," Robert asked quietly, "how

Lindsay McKenna

#4. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak

#5. I had to decide on the kind of life I wanted to live and live it.

Ari Goldman

#6. I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Shannon Hale

#7. I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

Jenny Downham

#8. I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too ...

L.M. Montgomery

#9. It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

Meg Wolitzer

#11. You wanted to live." "No," he shot back. "I was afraid of dying.

J.R. Ward

#12. I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Harrison Ford

#13. Tristan frowned, not sure if he wanted to live forever.
He hadn't even wanted to wake up that morning.
Forever seemed a bit ambitious.

Chelsea Fine

#14. And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Jimmy Johnson

#15. I've lived a long time," Magnus said. "So many years, and no, it doesn't feel like enough. I won't lie and say it does. I want to live on - partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.

Audra McDonald

#17. He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#18. I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Demian Bichir

#19. But this was the present moment - the party the camel driver had mentioned - and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.

Paulo Coelho

#20. I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

John Waters

#21. He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

David Nicholls

#22. For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#23. It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

George Sidney

#24. I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.

Abbi Glines

#25. You want the truth? Those two years you could have ended your life, but you didn't because you wanted to live. You weren't looking for a way out, Jay. You were looking for a way back in.

Nicole Reed

#26. That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be happy. And it wouldn't let him.

Janet Fitch

#27. I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Thom Yorke

#28. Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?

Catherine Cookson

#29. People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

Arne Glimcher

#30. I was not content at home ... I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

Mata Hari

#31. When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Tila Tequila

#32. In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

Benjamin E. Mays

#33. I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations

Elijah Wood

#34. He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He wanted her to have his child - his children. He knew he wanted to live out the rest of his life with her by his side and when he died, he wanted to die in her arms.

Christine Feehan

#35. There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Christopher Hampton

#36. I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

Linda McCartney

#37. We and all the others and everyone - regardless of the lives we'd led, and more than anything else, and beyond the agonies and dangers that attend every act and action of ours in this life, we all wanted to live. And that desire, if not the result, is something to think about.

Deborah Blum

#38. I wanted to live with hope; I wanted to love with my heart and turn my dreams into reality.

Lisa De Jong

#39. Perhaps this woman was not giving him any physical attention yet and he wanted to live out his fantasies, vicariously in an alternative holographic state.

Jill Thrussell

#40. There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

Larry The Cable Guy

#41. This - this was our deception, where I wanted to live until the day I died. Where nothing was real but the secrets we whispered in the night.

A.L. Jackson

#42. Nash wanted to live a life with no regrets. I wanted to live a life that was fulfilled. We needed each other to accomplish that, and now that we had each other there was no then versus now, there was just this life we had together.

Jay Crownover

#43. I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Margot Fonteyn

#44. At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American

Charlaine Harris

#45. I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Alberto Manguel

#46. For a long time, the church in America has assumed that its cultural conservatism was American, that most people at least ideally wanted to live up to our conception of the good life. Those with eyes to see ought to recognize that if those days ever existed, they are no more.

Russell D. Moore

#47. She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.

Abbi Glines

#48. I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,,

Charles Bukowski

#49. I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

Aleksandr Kuprin

#50. I wanted to live, and the knowledge filled me with a fierce and exultant joy until I felt like flame in a world made of paper. I wanted to live.

Elliott James

#51. Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#52. I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes.

Brad Thor

#53. She didn't want to kill a moment. She wanted to live one. Live many.

So how in the name of the godstars do you do that? Was it too late to learn?

Laini Taylor

#54. I was drunk on him. High on him. I wanted to swallow him down, inhale him, inject him. I wanted him to live under my skin and change my DNA. I wanted to live in his air and breathe his passion.

Stylo Fantome

#55. I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Robert Kiyosaki

#56. I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.

Polly Bergen

#57. I wanted to live in your heart and in your dreams.
I wanted to enjoy your love, laughter and screams.

Debasish Mridha

#58. I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#59. For the first time in a year, I wanted to live
because I wanted to spend every freaking day watching her open her eyes to the world. Hell, I wanted to be the first thing she saw. Sometimes, reality's a bitch.

Rachel Van Dyken

#60. I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

Alister MacKenzie

#61. I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times.

Sophia Amoruso

#62. She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not.

Alexander McCall Smith

#63. I wanted to live up to expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And

Sherman Alexie

#64. I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

Fred Rogers

#65. I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

Ashley Jensen

#66. I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Russell Tovey

#67. It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Emile Zola

#68. I split time between Nebraska and Florida. I'll come to Nebraska in the summertime and stay through Thanksgiving and then I go back to Florida because I have family in both places. One of the reasons I got the place in Nebraska is I've always wanted to live back in Nebraska.

Larry The Cable Guy

#69. New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime ...

Barbara Holland

#70. Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.

Mel Martinez

#71. I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Bernie Mac

#72. I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

Nolan Ryan

#73. There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

Laura Carmichael

#74. I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

David Bailey

#75. Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#76. I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Lauren DeStefano

#77. I'm living the life that I wanted to live and I'm loving every little thing that I do. Fortunately, I have had a very, very charmed life. Wherever I've been, that's what I wanted to be doing, right then.

Tarsem Singh

#78. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Kendrick Lamar

#79. I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Iggy Azalea

#80. He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.

Brian Morton

#81. I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Paul Johnson

#82. She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted her bike. She wanted her friends, who were also one-thousand-year-old condescending brats. She wanted to live in a world where she was surrounded by one-thousand-year-old condescending brats.

Maggie Stiefvater

#83. I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn't even look to see if there was water in the pool.

Mavis Gallant

#84. Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

Paulo Coelho

#85. I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.

Maggie Nelson

#86. Liam's own ego had killed him. He wanted to live forever, and he died young trying.

Lee Strauss

#87. In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible.

Atul Gawande

#88. He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed - nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle - they all wanted to live.

Gary Paulsen

#89. I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#90. I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

Lance Armstrong

#91. Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

Jeb Hensarling

#92. I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Sidney Poitier

#93. If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Abbi Glines

#94. I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Mitch Kapor

#95. He reflected that he had only one life and that he wanted to live it somewhere else.

Milan Kundera

#96. I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

Jamaica Kincaid

#97. I don't need to ring anyone. I said I'm dying. I didn't say I wanted to live.

Tim Bowler

#98. Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

Buzz Aldrin

#99. Kira: Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or ... No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was ... maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei ...

Fuyumi Soryo

#100. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

Rachel Cohn