To Live Quotes

“God whispered," You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand...hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moments, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality.... We've only one life to live.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Aţi admis fornicaţia promiscuă, atât. Dar nu dragostea, nu contactul firesc, nu aţi renunţat la orgoliul din mintea voastră şi nici la abandonarea instinctelor. Deloc. Vă agăţaţi de voinţa voastră conştientă. Orice lucru trebuie să fie tot timpulexpressément voulu.Iar legăturile exclusiv mintale. Viaţa trebuie trăită, nu ca în mijlocul unei lumi de oameni vii, ci ca şi cum ar fi o amintire solitară, o fantezie şi o meditaţie. O masturbare fără sfârşit, ca şi lunga şi oribila carte a lui Proust. Asta-i viaţa superioară. Sau, cu alte cuvinte, un termen eufemic pentru începutul morţii.(Mark Rampion)”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“Asiyeogopa kufa anaogopa kuishi.”
― Enock Maregesi

“It took me many years to realize that it's hard to live in this world. I don't mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it's harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It's natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of" what we can handle "changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that's something of a miracle.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“To live is to suffer, to live is to sweat, to live is an ache you can't fucking forget.

To live is to yearn, to live is to burn, to live is to fucking screw up and wait for the fate to turn.”
― Etgar Keret

“Live as you need to live, regardless of form, there is no universal formula, not even the need for happiness is something universal in human nature. If you're going to live for love, live for love; if it is to live for courage, for honor, for vanity, for anger – life for that; what matters, in the end, is that you lived it with intensity.”
― Jeff Ampolini

“you can't fight forever
you have to comply
if your life isnt working
you have to ask why
~howl”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library