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Actually Living Quotes

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness. Jack Kerouac
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything. Alan Watts
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. Blaise Pascal
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall. Tom Robbins
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living? Doug Coupland
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? Nikos Kazantzakis
Herman Hesse quote: "You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good...."
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Herman Hesse
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense. Michael Crichton
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. Alan Dershowitz
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. Derek Jacobi
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. Roger Bannister
Charles Bukowski quote: "You have to die a few times before you actually live."
You have to die a few times before you actually live. Charles Bukowski
Clement Freud quote: "If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you..."
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just feels longer. Clement Freud
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. Orson Scott Card
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed. Umberto Eco

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