Feel More Alive Quotes

#1. Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. Activities and passions pursued during the fringe hours make a life more beautiful and the participant feel more alive and more uniquely herself.

Jessica N. Turner

#3. When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

Maurice Chevalier

#4. Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure
because goodness makes you feel more alive.

Susan Neiman

#5. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#6. I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Kathleen Turner

#7. And, I just can't shake this feeling I have when I'm around him. The chemistry, The electricity I feel when he's close to me or touches me, makes me feel more alive than I've ever felt

J.B. McGee

#8. When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.

Vivian Gornick

#9. What matters, finally, isn't finding the kind of person you think you should
love. What matters is finding someone you feel more alive with.

Brian Morton

#10. Then, after he'd watched her walk out, a wave of melancholy swept over him and for the thirtieth time that day he regretted that he hadn't just become a pharmacist, or a charter captain, or something that made you feel more alive, like a pirate.

Christopher Moore

#11. Nothing makes you fell more alive than swimming in a cold ocean."
I beg to differ, I though wistuflly, watching as he let go of my arm and dived into the waves. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when you touch me, Travis.

Kate McCarthy

#12. Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

Nina Simone

#14. I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Dean Karnazes

#15. I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

H. L. Balcomb

#16. There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

Sara Humphreys

#17. As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

Spencer Johnson

#18. Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.

Michael Callahan

#19. I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?

Rick Yancey

#20. That's what high energy does. It amplifies everything. Speak louder, gesticulate more, feel more alive than your audience. That will amplify your message.

Charlie Houpert

#21. Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.

Tracy McMillan

#22. Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwise have melted from my memory.

David Gentleman

#23. Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive
you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

David Levithan

#24. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.

Gayle Roper

#25. Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

Sally Mann

#26. I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

Margaret Way

#27. Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Ze Frank

#28. Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Mathieu Amalric

#29. There is not a moment that passes where you don't make me feel more alive than I ever thought I could, and today you gave me something I thought was lost a long time ago for the both of us. You've given me peace, babe. You've given me everything.

Samantha Young

#30. I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time
except maybe when I'm making love.

May Sarton

#31. I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how some people just gave up. This darkness was overwhelming.

J.M. Northup

#32. I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

Maya Angelou

#33. I see your bleeding dark side. I feel your angry heart. Reveals forbidden places. More monster yet alive ...

Static-X

#34. I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

Dev Hynes

#35. Perhaps, more than anything, it's the sound of riding a motorbike that makes you feel alive and transforms every man into a boy.

Jeremy Kroeker

#36. It's like my karate teacher says - you are more alive when you are feeling pain than when you are so careful that you feel nothing.

Annabel Monaghan

#37. You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

Fiona Wood

#38. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.

Tim Kreider

#39. Your life is defined by death, and each time you face it you grow stronger. You learn more, and feel more. It sounds stupid to say it like this, but not dying makes you more alive.

Dan Wells

#40. The good-natured arguing that got your heart pumping, made you think, made you listen, made you feel just that bit more alive.

Kristen Ashley

#41. Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as
processed carbs. They're loaded with sugar and other additives.
The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive
we feel. The more dead foods we eat ... well, you get the idea.

Tony Horton

#42. Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Lil B

#43. When you live in extreme pain, sometimes you need even more pain to feel alive.

Jon Konrath

#44. Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Katherine Mansfield

#45. There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it ...

Mark Helprin

#46. The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

Randeep Hooda

#47. The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. My dad always taught me to live like that. Dad wrote a poem too. It goes, Dune buggies. Woohoo!

Christopher Titus

#48. May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.

Fennel Hudson

#49. There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.

James Hunt

#50. GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

Kennedy Ryan

#51. It's been my experience," he continued, "that when you're with the right people, you feel more like yourself than ever. There's a happiness, and a feeling of coming alive to yourself and the other person, that's like nothing else.

Elizabeth Chandler

#52. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#53. But don't you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf, don't you feel as if the people inside are going on with their lives after the story is over?" Lucy felt that way about most of the books she loved.

Kristin Kladstrup

#54. 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

#55. But I also knew that the human condition leads us to feel alive when confronted with things that we have never imagined, and even more alive when confronted with things we cannot have.

Laura Thomas

#56. Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Moss Hart

#57. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.

Kristin Hannah

#58. It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

Maureen Daly

#59. So much adrenaline, emotion and futility hung in the air, throttling our bones, stirring our blood, making us starved, wild animals. Death made sex feel much more alive.

Karina Halle

#60. The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

Chris Hemsworth

#61. Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

Louise Gluck

#62. You know, I learned a long time ago breathing didn't make a person feel alive. But you knock the air right out of my lungs, and it's never felt more real.

Bethany-Kris

#63. Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.

John Lachs

#64. The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

Ken Robinson

#65. The Talents aren't alive - no more than your conscience is alive, or your anger is alive. You may feel like these things have a life to them, but that's dangerous - it makes them external, Al. Like you don't have responsibility for them. Your Talent is a piece of you.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.

Luna Saint Claire

#67. I feel alive again - living, breathing, and experiencing life like I never had before - because of him. He took me to places within my body and my soul I've never been, and I wanted to discover more.

Kim Karr

#68. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Gabriel Zaid

#69. Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if you're dying alive.

Simone De Beauvoir

#70. When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

Queen Latifah

#71. Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Tony Robbins

#72. When you FEEL healthy and vital and alive and prosperous ... you attract more of all those things.

Esther Hicks

#73. Emme and Deck talked as well as argued all the time about politics, current events, historical events, whatever. The good-natured arguing that got your heart pumping, made you think, made you listen, made you feel just that bit more alive. Elsbeth

Kristen Ashley

#74. I'd always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.

Demitria Lunetta

#75. Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Vanessa Hudgens

#76. I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch.

LeAnne Mechelle

#77. You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying.

Kate Bassett

#78. It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.

Glenn Branca

#79. I sank onto the deck. My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.

Jenny Han