Alive Quotes
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
Stephen Spender
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
Alicia Keys
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There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
Gail Godwin
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Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
Huston Smith
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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
Eve Ensler
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A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
Karen Hancock
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Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
Sarah Dessen
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
Stanley Kubrick
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."
Catherine Hardwicke
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Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
Casey Wilson
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What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
Barry Lyga
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You are not alive unless you know you are living.
Amedeo Modigliani
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Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
Noah Richler
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The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.
George Sarton
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Trees are worth more alive than dead...
Prince
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Life is hard everywhere but you know what, we’re alive. If you’re alive, you have action. You only stop getting action when you’re dead. If you can wake up every morning, you have action and get it right again. It’s all good.
Terrace Martin
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
David Bowie
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On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.
Ray Fearon
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She herself had certainly never been more alive. She felt electric. She would not have been surprised if sparks had come crackling out of the tips of her sober gloves.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
William S. Burroughs
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Thomas Carlyle
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein
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... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
Elizabeth von Arnim