Living quotes

“You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget to make the most of where you are.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Aurora Lane

“The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.”
Ralph Macchio

“I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.”
Scott Glenn

“We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.”
Rod Steiger

“Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death.”
Anne Bancroft

“You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine.”
Ben Foster - Matt 'Axe' Axelson

It is never "too much"; it is only "not enough"! Bite your teeth into the ass of life and drag it to you!

Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“You've got only one life to live. You can either make it chickenshit or chicken salad.”
Lloyd Bridges - Vince

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Eddie Cantor

“- William Forrester: You don't know a goddamn thing about reason; There are no reasons! Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don't! Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out!
- Jamal Wallace: Yeah, and what's the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the shit locked so nobody can read it? What is...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“We are all just one small adjustment away from making our lives work.”
Paul Rudd - George

“I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?”
Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine

“Eat to live. Don't live to eat.”
Robert Carlyle - Col. Ives

“What's the good of living without hope?”

Betty Grable - Jill Lynn

“It is not living that is important, but living properly. Socrates chose to die an unjust death, a death he freely accepted, rather than break the laws of Athens to which he pledged his loyalty.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“I try to live in the now where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide.”
Naseeruddin Shah - Captain Nemo

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
Meryl Streep - Clarissa Vaughan

“- Donald: This will be like skiing, except for the booby traps.
- Doreen: I don't believe in surviving. I believe in living.”
Robin Williams - Donald Quinelle
Annie McEnroe - Doreen

“You must not care whether you live or die.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Lancelot

“You think too much about the time you have left. You don't spend it living.”

Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux

“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”
Tara Morice - Fran

“- Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
- Sully: Not often. Now and then.”
Jessica Tandy - Miss Beryl
Paul Newman - Sully

“The day I died was the day I started to live.”
Halle Berry - Catwoman

“Some lessons can't be taught, Elektra. They must be lived to be understood.”
Terence Stamp - Stick

“I didn't come here to tell you that I can't live without you. I can live without you. I just don't want to.”
Jennifer Aniston - Sarah Huttinger