Sentence examples for a simpler existence from inspiring English sources

The pressure of modern life can leave many day-dreaming about jacking in their nine-to-five job for a simpler existence off-grid.

Like Clunes, Quentin has also escaped city life in favour of a simpler existence on a farm in Devon with her husband and kids.

But when even Felix started to echo back the word yamas – "cheers" in Greek – I knew it was time to catch the ferry to a simpler existence, away from the blurry influence of Dionysus.

As embassy life grew more strained, he began to have fantasies of a simpler existence: "Half waking, half dreaming, in my single bed in the embassy, I could see myself running away to live the rest of my life with HJK".

The witty light-heartedness of his buildings and products may have helped make them so popular among both clients and consumers, but the memorable quality and lasting power of his designs lie elsewhere: in the Proust-like remembrance of things past that we see in his paintings and in the yearning they convey for a simpler existence than what the modern world has to offer us.

"Those living on the margin hunt, slash and burn, fish and mine for gold to eke out a simple existence.

Gandhi created a model community there that still flourishes, in which the inhabitants live a simple existence.

Victorian Bakers feeds into the idyllic dream of ditching our technology-dominated lives for a simple existence in the countryside.

I envisaged a simple existence among windswept uplands and immense skies, where I could push the children out of the back door and into a rustic, Arthur Ransome idyll.

"It was a humbling experience and I was interacting with locals who lived such a simple existence but were content with life.

Whilst some might view such behaviour as masochistic madness there is something to learn from these radicals: when everything is pared down there is nowhere to hide; a simple existence exposes all.