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Whenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580 Living is my job and my art. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580 The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580

Ernest Hemingway2 quotes

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926 I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926

Jack London2 quotes

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. — Jack London · 1916 I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. — Jack London · 1916

Oscar Wilde2 quotes

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891 Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890

Anais Nin1 quote

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941

Andrew1 quote

I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was. — Andrew · 2014

Andy Dufresne1 quote

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994

Bertolt Brecht1 quote

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931

Bill Murray1 quote

I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it. — Bill Murray · 2014

Captain B. McCrea1 quote

I don't want to survive, I want to live! — Captain B. McCrea · 2008

Christopher Hitchens1 quote

Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007

Dave Chappelle1 quote

You gotta make life interesting like that cause the shit is flimsy. Life is flimsy. You…you think you’re gonna live, but ain’t nobody gon’ live forever. — Dave Chappelle · 2000

Dr. Eldon Tyrell1 quote

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. — Dr. Eldon Tyrell · 1982

Drake1 quote

You only live once, that's the motto nigga YOLO — Drake · 2011

Frank Sinatra1 quote

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway And more, much more than this. I did it my way. — Frank Sinatra · 1969

George Bernard Shaw1 quote

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903

George Chapman1 quote

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman · 1608

Helen Keller1 quote

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller · 1940

Henry James1 quote

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James · 1903

Horace1 quote

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BC

John Keating1 quote

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989

Lester Burnham1 quote

Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die. — Lester Burnham · 1999

Louise Imogen Guiney1 quote

A short life in the saddle, Lord! Not long life by the fire. — Louise Imogen Guiney · 1893

Mary Oliver1 quote

When it's over I don't want to wonder If I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. — Mary Oliver · 1992

Matthew Arnold1 quote

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done. — Matthew Arnold · 1852

Nikos Kazantzakis1 quote

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To Live-do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!" — Nikos Kazantzakis · 1946

Peter Banning1 quote

To live...to live would be an awfully big adventure. — Peter Banning · 1991

Sabrina Fairchild1 quote

I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either. — Sabrina Fairchild · 1954

Seneca1 quote

Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca · 49

William Wallace1 quote

Every man dies, not every man really lives. — William Wallace · 1995

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