Top 100 Alive Is Quotes
#1. Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
Charles Bowden
#2. Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#5. The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we're never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything
Caroline Kepnes
#7. I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
#8. I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.
Nikki Sixx
#9. To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
John Lautner
#10. Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
Richard Saunders
#11. One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
Sebastian Faulks
#12. People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess.
Joel Derfner
#13. Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything ... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.
W.N.P. Barbellion
#14. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.
Daphne Zuniga
#15. need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you.
Atul Gawande
#16. Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.
William Walton
#17. The meaning of being alive is just being alive
Alan W. Watts
#18. To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.
Yukitaka Yamamoto
#20. I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living?
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#21. Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. That, that right there. That's it, that feeling, that moment of breathlessness, that little surge in your chest, the prickle of heat along your skin and the low hot roll of your belly, that's what being alive is all about.
Christine Zolendz
#24. A word, Sir Jamie. Quickly!"
You may speak freely, Alwyn," Jamie sighed. "You are always making too mcuh of minor incidents."
You're no' going to believe it, Sir Jamie," Alwyn gasped. "But I swear every male Fergusson alive is outside our gate.
Johanna Lindsey
#25. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
Rachel Kushner
#26. You realize the only way he'll stop trying to keep you alive is if you make him hate you, right?" Her heart shriveled in her chest. "I don't want him to hate me.
Annette Marie
#27. Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else.
Matt Groening
#28. Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
William, Saroyan
#29. The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
#30. One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#31. Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.
Jostein Gaarder
#32. Feeling alive is merely a rush of adrenaline.
Jenn Bennett
#33. YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
Terry Pratchett
#34. I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
James Frey
#36. Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
Philip Roth
#37. The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
Richard Louv
#38. Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.
A. L. Kennedy
#39. Sometimes ... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.
Melina Marchetta
#40. To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#41. Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.
Mary Balogh
#42. To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
Gerald May
#43. THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE!
Werner Schroeder
#44. So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.
Marci Shimoff
#45. I felt, driving home, that for the first time in many years, maybe ever, I was coming truly alive, and here's the thing: the problem of being alive is that it makes you frightened.
Justin Cronin
#46. You are born and you will die ... but BEING ALIVE is your choice.
Mayank Sharma
#47. I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.
Louis C.K.
#48. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
#49. To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.
Jean Kerr
#50. Because, you see, this feeling of alive is not so easy to experience
Ruth Ozeki
#51. Part of the beauty and wonder of being alive is the opportunity to make your own choices and create your own meaning.
Armin Navabi
#53. We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean De La Bruyere
#54. Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.
Mary Engelbreit
#55. To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.
Don Altman
#56. The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.
Michael Franti
#57. Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious - in a fun way and in a sad way. That seems to connect with people.
Judd Apatow
#58. Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.
Steve Erickson
#59. The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.
Tom Hiddleston
#60. Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.
Marty Rubin
#61. I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.
Julianne Moore
#62. I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
John Guare
#63. Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#64. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
#65. Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
Mark Harmon
#66. Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.
Andrew Wight
#67. He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
Paul Bremer
#70. Not even. Bruised pretty good. The impact ruptured your spleen. They couldn't repair it." She gives a dismissive wave of her hand. "Don't worry, you don't need one. And if you did, they'd find you one, wouldn't they? It's everybody's job to keep you alive." "Is that
Suzanne Collins
#71. This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?
Thomas Hardy
#72. The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.
Louis Evely
#73. A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth
#74. 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 Frusciante
#75. Quotes From The Whipping Boyfriend
Picky alive is better than picky dead in a freezer any day, she told herself.
p.14
Edward Reed
#76. If they haven't compromised themselves already, in their hearts they want to, because being true to one's art, keeping the dream alive, is utterly exhausting.
Don Lee
#77. A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
Ali Smith
#78. Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
Frank E. Peretti
#79. And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?
Lucinda Riley
#81. My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
Nick Cave
#82. Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
Siri Hustvedt
#83. Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
#84. The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
India.Arie
#85. There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathise, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive. Is this impossible? I think not.
Oscar Wilde
#86. Each moment you are alive is a gem, shining through and containing earth and sky, water and clouds. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed. Suddenly you hear the birds singing, the pines chanting, see the flowers blooming, the blue sky, the white clouds ...
Thich Nhat Hanh
#87. Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
#88. One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#89. The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.'
The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'
Ivor Cutler
#90. To be alive is by definition messy, always leaning towards disorder and surprise. How
Krista Tippett
#91. Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.
Soko
#94. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell
#95. Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.
Kara Goucher
#96. The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
Wilferd Peterson
#97. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.
Liu Cixin
#98. The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11)
Confucius
#99. To be in the here and the now - solid and fully alive - is a very positive contribution to our collective situation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
Nhat Hanh
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