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:
“Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“Now, again, poetry
violent, arcane, common,
hewn of the commonest living substance
into archway, portal, frame
I grasp for you, your bloodstained splinters, your
ancient and stubborn poise
Mas the earth trembles—
burning out from the grain”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)