Alive Quotes
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I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.
Dat Phan
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You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.
Nicholas Sparks
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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Nancy Spain
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The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Nicholas Mosley
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I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.
Arnulf Rainer
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The Child Within refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled; it is our Real Self - who we truly are.
Charles L. Whitfield
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All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
Chris Priestley
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
Hayao Miyazaki
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I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.
Denton Cooley
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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
Catherynne M. Valente
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If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
William H. Gass
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Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!
Anthony Robbins
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
Banksy
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The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.
William Wharton
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I can't tell you anything that is going to make you feel like we are going to turn it around. All I can say is we are still alive and we still have a chance. And that is worth fighting for.
Allen Iverson
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
Caryl Churchill
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I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
Building 429
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Still as death, and Andrés felt as if it were up to him to make noise so that his sister would know they were still alive.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
Rachel Caine
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It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.
Esi Edugyan