To begin to live in the present, we must first atone forour past and be finished with it, and we can onlyatone for it by suffering, by extraordinary, unceasing exertion.

-Chekhov, Anton
  The Cherry Orchard, act 2 (translated by Elisaveta Fen). English    colonial    administrator,    Governor    of    Queensland (1905^9)  and  of  New  South Wales  (1909^13), Viceroy  of  India (1916^21) and First Lord of the Admiralty (1924).

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for itöanything but live for it.

-Colton, Charles Caleb
  Lacon, vol.1, no.25.

We live, as we dreamöalone.

-Korzeniowski
  Heart of Darkness, pt.1 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected inYouth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories, 1902).

Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?öand if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?

-Cornford, Frances ne¤  e Darwin
  'Rupert Brooke'.

Comeonyousonsof bitches!Doyouwanttoliveforever? See Frederick the Great 335:33.

-Daly, Daniel
  Attributed, to his troops at Belleau  Wood, 4  Jun.

People in nutrition do get the idea that theyare going to live to be150. And they never do.

-Davis, Adelle
  Quoted in DanielYergin's'Supernutritionist', NewYork Times magazine, 20 May.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de¤  faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

-de Beauvoir, Simone
  Tous les hommes sont mortels (All Men  Are Mortal).

I cannot live withYouö It would be Lifeö And Life is over thereö Behind the Shelf.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.640 (first published1890).

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
?1872  Complete Poems, no.1212 (first published1894).

   We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

-Didion,Joan
  The White Album,'The White  Album,1'.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks: With silken lines, and silver hooks. See Marlowe 553:17, Raleigh 677:98.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Bait', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

-Dryden,John
  Aureng-Zebe, act 4, sc.1.

   Sen for the deid remeid is none, Best is that we for dede dispone Eftir our deid that lif may we: Timor mortis conturbat me.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
c.1505  'Lament for the Makaris', stanza 25.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood Violent, vivid and of infinite possibility.

-Eberhart, Richard Ghormley
  'If I Could Only Live at the Pitch That Is Near Madness'.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8  Jun. Collected in G S Haight (ed)  The George Eliot Letters (1954), vol.2.

Egbert, is it true that married people live longer? No, it just seems longer.

-Fields,W C originally  William Claude Dukenfield
  The Bank Dick.

Live and Let Die.

-Fleming, Ian Lancaster
   Title of novel.

   You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
  The Good Soldier, pt.3, ch.4.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.22.