Cannot Live Quotes

299 quotes by 249 authors

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea… — Leon Trotsky
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name,… — Jane Kenyon
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't… — Nuala O'Faolain
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You… — Anais Nin
Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and… — C.S. Lewis
We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for… — Tennessee Williams
You cannot live with a paw in each world. — Erin Hunter
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us. — Harold S. Kushner
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live… — Alison Goodman
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run… — Herman Melville
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic… — Angela Carter
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not… — James A. Baldwin
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf — Emily Dickinson
But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either… — Nawal El Saadawi

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