Alive Quotes
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The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".
Yasumasa Morimura -
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
Sebastian Faulks
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
T. H. White -
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC -
Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.
William Butler Yeats -
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
Alice Fulton -
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
Banksy -
You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
Kevin Spacey -
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 -
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Isak Dinesen -
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
Joanne Rowling -
I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
Agnes Varda
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Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want.
Anamika Mishra -
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.
Noel Riley Fitch -
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
Banana Yoshimoto -
The world is kept alive only by heretics.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.
Gail Giles
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt -
Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
Judy Collins -
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.
Theodore Roethke -
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
William Wordsworth