I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
—Rainbow Rowell in Landline
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
—Eugene V. Debs
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumb show.
—Allen Ginsberg
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
—Havelock Ellis
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
—Jean Cocteau
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it.
—Arthur Miller
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
—Hans Christian Andersen
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees
The good man is the friend of all living things.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
—Flip Wilson
I was watching my friends live around me, but I wasn't living. I was getting by. Making it day to day.
—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
—Leo Tolstoy
I do not know the end of my living and the beginning of my dying, for they—living and dying—are both mixed up.
—Jamaica Kincaid
My trade and art is to live.
—Michel de Montaigne
People were too busy living their lives to notice that mine had somehow came to a halt.
—Brittainy C. Cherry in Loving Mr. Daniels