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
  In The Spectator, no.68,18 May.

   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
  Rome¤  o et  Jeannette, act 3.

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)
ORDPsalms116:8^11.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:2.

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)
Ecclesiastes 9:4^5.

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)
Isaiah 53:8^9.

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)
St Luke15:13.

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)
St Luke 24:5^6.

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
Catechism.

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
  Without Stopping:  An  Autobiography, ch.17.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

-Browne, SirThomas
  Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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

-Browning, Robert
  La Saisiaz, prologue.

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
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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

-Cather,Willa Sibert
  One of Ours, bk.2, ch.6.

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
Maximes et Pense¤  es (1795), ch.2.

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
  Speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer, House of Commons,7  Aug.

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
  Dedans.

Is not living at all not better than living badly?

-Critias
Fragment, quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1952), vol.2, 385, no.23. Irish  politician  and  essayist,  known for  his  satires  on  the  Irish stage and Dublin society. He became an MP (1807) and helped found the Quarterly Review (1809).

   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
  'Goodbye To  All That', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

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
  In The Listener, 20  Apr.