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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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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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
Abe Burrows
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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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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil Cioran
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If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
Catherine Keener
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Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
Casey Wilson
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Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.
Robert De Niro
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
William Morris
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There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel … diminished. When that happens, we’ll do almost anything to feel so alive again.
Peter V. Brett
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
Eve Ensler
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
Mother Teresa
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Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
Erwin McManus
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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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The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.
Jeff Goldblum
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami
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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
Romany Malco
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
Cecelia Ahern
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A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.
Gerald Holton
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
Niall Williams