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The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

—Bowles, Paul Frederick

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

—Self,Will

On doit des e¤  gards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la ve¤  rite¤  . We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

—Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet

   Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins dro"  le et c'est plus long. To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funnyand lasts longer.

—Anouilh,Jean

Is not living at all not better than living badly?

—Critias

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage. And therefore the reputation for honesty must first be gotten; which cannot be but by living well. A good life is a main argument.

—Jonson, Ben

   Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.

—Pope, Alexander

He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The dead might as well speak to the living as the old to the young.

—Cather,Willa Sibert

La seule diffe¤  rence incontestable n'est pas celle des sexes ou des a"  ges ou des forces, mais celle des vifs et des morts. The only incontestable difference isnot that of sexorage or strength, but that of the living and the dead.

—Cixous, He¤  le'  ne

Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.

—Stein, Gertrude

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

—Kerr,Jean ne¤  e  Collins

As to woman's subjection†it is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

Thank Heaven! the crisisö The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at lastö And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

To learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.

—Book of Common Prayer

The virtues common to good living and good poetry seem to me not so much matters of what used to be called 'virtue'as, above all, of sane vitality.

—Lucas, F(rank) L(awrence)

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.

—Kunitz, StanleyJasspon

   Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.

—Stockton

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin, Don't let the old folks know.

—Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)

C'est une chose anormale de vivre. Living is abnormal.

—Ionesco, Euge' n e

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

—Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

How little room Do we take up in death, that, living know No bounds?

—Shirley,James

Living next to you is like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

—Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

—William of Poitiers   11c.

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

—Browning, Robert

It isnot living, but living well, whichwe oughttoconsider most important.

—Plato

Wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

—Browne, SirThomas

Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

—More, SirThomas

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782

—Shelley, Mary Godwin

   New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

—Didion,Joan

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

—Addison,Joseph

There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for iver, and onlydribbleyourmind out by thesly, likea leaky barrel.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

Society is indeed a contract†it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Burke, Edmund

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

   [Prince Charles] is entitled to be as underwhelmed by the prospect of reigning overa fourth-class nation as the rest of us are by the prospect of living in it.

—Jay, Peter

Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

History is the endless repetition of the wrong way of living, and it'll start again tomorrow, if it's moved from here today. 296

—Durrell, Lawrence George

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

—Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

—Rowland, Helen

I'm less than two months old and I'm tired of living.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

His soul swooned slowlyas he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descentoftheir lastend, uponall theliving and the dead.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'

—Gibbons, Orlando

And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them,Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember St Luke how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted† It is about time that we pulled our fingers out† The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

—Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of