Top 100 Man Alive Quotes
#1. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!
Zhuangzi
#2. I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
Darlene Love
#3. The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
Albert Schweitzer
#4. A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !
Cameron Jace
#5. Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him. But all the women-children that hath not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Anonymous
#8. Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer."
"Any but you, apparently."
-Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Chameleon
#9. Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .
Jessica Alba
#10. I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly.
William Goldman
#11. The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W.C. Fields
#12. I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.
George Strait
#13. The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)
John Eldredge
#14. A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
Alan W. Watts
#15. I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.
Jorgen Leth
#16. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.
Mas'udi
#17. Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
George Orwell
#18. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#19. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
Caleb Carr
#20. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
William Shakespeare
#21. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
Alan Moore
#22. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries Shah
#23. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? 'You think too much, old man' he said aloud.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
Charles Bukowski
#25. A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
Vance Havner
#26. If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with
the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. The masterless man ... afflicted with the magic of the necessary words ... Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
Rudyard Kipling
#28. As you circumambulate and move closer to Kaaba, you feel like a small stream merging with a big river. As you approach the center, the pressure of the crowd squeezes you so hard that you are given a new life. You are now a part of the people; you are now a man alive and eternal!
Ali Shariati
#29. Levi is made from the beautiful pool of people, but its his good-guy-ness that makes him the most gorgeous man alive.
Cassie Mae
#30. To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.
Thomas Huxley
#31. People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
Tracy Morgan
#32. I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told.
John Crowley
#33. I tell you even a half-dead man hates to be alive and not be able to see any sense to it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.
Angela Carter
#35. She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Wilkie Collins
#36. Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Abraham Maslow
#37. Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn't enough.
Marty Rubin
#38. A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Poul Anderson
#39. Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
J.K. Rowling
#42. Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil Cioran
#43. I shall not be alive a half decade hence," said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man.
Isaac Asimov
#44. Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.
Howard Thurman
#45. Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.
Emun Elliott
#46. Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.
Shawn Amos
#47. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D.H. Lawrence
#48. I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people ... come on humans ... do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive ... you're half dead. Let's do some living".
Jack LaLanne
#49. Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.
Helen Fisher
#50. Do you know what it means to be that beautiful & still hunted & still alive?
Who knows this story but the elephants & the trees?
Who says the grace of a black man in motion is not perfect
as a tusk in the sun or a single leaf taking its sweet time to the ground?
Danez Smith
#51. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
#52. This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.
John Steinbeck
#53. It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
Ray Bradbury
#54. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
#55. To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
Dalai Lama
#57. I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.
Karen Hawkins
#58. (I remember with gratitude the banner carried by some very old and bawdy women who led the parade while I was a student: hardly a man is now alive, who remembers the girls of '95.)
Gloria Steinem
#59. She watched the stream of hot black liquid fall, and felt suddenly, painfully alive to what she had risked in overthrowing her life for the man walking away into the night with another woman.
J.K. Rowling
#60. There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato
#62. When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?
Shahla Khan
#63. How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more ...
Charles Bukowski
#64. You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.
Dave Eggers
#65. Regardless of the fact Denker was a sadistic killer, and not an innocent man. The judicial system seemed designed to keep those killers alive for as long as possible, regardless of evidence, or the hurt it caused the victims' families -
Toni Anderson
#66. Here's my philosophy. Adopt it, and you'll make it out alive. Every man for himself. You watch your own ass. Your con goes orange? You fall back to defensive position. No heroics. And no stupidity. Got it?
Eve Silver
#67. Yet, if the world were bettered by
My death or story left untold,
I would condemn myself to die
For misdemeanours manifold:
I bring no harm to young or old
Alive or dead, in either case:
A man so needy never rolled
A mountain from its resting place.
Francois Villon
#68. There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Harriet Tubman
#69. If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Thomas Merton
#70. Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and daylight slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
A.E. Housman
#71. Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.
John Roecker
#72. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
#73. Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.
Robert Benchley
#74. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
Carew Papritz
#75. I have a theory that those mutants retain some memory of what they were in life, and that draws them to where they used to live. That's probably bullshit, but since I seem to be the only man alive, my theories are the best in this part of the world.
Manel Loureiro
#76. You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive?
Louise Penny
#77. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Thomas Browne
#78. For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.
H.G.Wells
#79. The glory of God is a man fully alive, and the life of a man consists in beholding God.
Charles R. Swindoll
#80. Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale.
Julia Quinn
#81. No man alive loves a woman as much as I love you. I never thought I would feel this way about anyone. I didn't think it existed. Not for me.
Samantha Young
#82. Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.
And alive, for the first time in his life.
V.S. Carnes
#83. I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.
Susan May Warren
#84. As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Bernard Malamud
#85. She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.
Ariana Franklin
#86. Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
Homer
#87. A fool more foolish than most had once jested that even Lord Tywin's shit was flecked with gold. Some said the man was still alive, deep in the bowels of Casterly Rock.
George R R Martin
#88. Sometimes it does not take a man or a woman, only something alive
Charles Bukowski
#89. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
John Le Carre
#90. Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.
Frank Pittman
#91. Behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments,
Henry David Thoreau
#92. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one. In my prime, I would have corked it with my thumb and then eaten you alive. Preferably by the pool of Le Meridien in Monte Carlo, with an admiring audience to applaud my frontside and backside efforts.
Stephen King
#93. He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord."
"He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
George R R Martin
#94. I know you've done that. I watched you fight with that man and stab him, but what does it feel like? Not just stabbing, but killing someone."
"Feels good. Feels like you're still alive and your enemy is dead." - Cage Match
Bonnie Dee
#95. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey
#96. That is - I don't know - is a man alive if he can't be killed?
J.K. Rowling
#97. Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.
Moses
#98. Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
#99. There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.
Anais Nin
#100. The female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way. Penelope,
Julia Quinn
