Best Living Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.”

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”

“The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.”

“That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living.”

“Now every mortal has pain”

“If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.”

“Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.”

“I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.”

“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

“His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.”

“What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.”

“You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living.”

“[...] But then,”

“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”

“Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.”

“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”

“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the”

“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.”

“Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I.”

“The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.”

“My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.”

“He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.”

“She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”

“There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”

“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.”

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”

“DEATH”

“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”

“There is no remedy for death—or birth—except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”

“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”