Barbara Deming Quotes

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

I'm a big foodie! I eat, like, three times a day... but most of all, I'm a breathie. Breathing air? That's the best thing in the world! I couldn't go two minutes without breathing.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

We eat to live.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will know how to run your lives. You will know if you have been living life to the full, and if you realize you haven't been, you will know immediately how to correct that state of affairs. As soon as I tell you the key to existence. Are you ready? Are you ready for me to tell you?... Always breathe. That's the basis of life, breathing. That's basically the basis. If you don't breathe, you die.

I live, which is the main point.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

The main thing is not to be dead.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

A world without love would be no world.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Philosophy is an act of living.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.