Living may refer to:
- Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms
- a living species is one that is not extinct
- Personal life, the course of an individual human's life
- Living wage, refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living
- Living or Benefice, in canon law, a position in a church that has attached to it a source of income
Famous quotes containing the word living:
“risk is full: every living thing in
siege: the demand is life, to keep life: the small
white blacklegged egret, how beautiful, quietly stalks and spears
the shallows, darts to shore
to stab—”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“Let us guard against saying that death is opposed to life. The living is merely a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)