Top 100 Not Alive Quotes
#1. People who kill time are themselves not alive.
Amit Abraham
#2. But Eva was not dead, he was not allowed to grieve. And she was not alive, so he could not hope. Nothing.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#3. The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
Albert Schweitzer
#4. Perspective is a law of optics ... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
David Hockney
#5. If atoms are not alive and humans are made up of atoms, then humans are not alive.
Joey Lawsin
#6. You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
Joseph Campbell
#8. Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.
Debasish Mridha
#9. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
#10. Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#11. I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.
Charlotte Delbo
#12. If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.
Stephen King
#13. You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
Lennart Nilsson
#14. I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
Mitch Albom
#15. I find it hilarious when I see 'not alive' fearing death
Mayank Sharma
#16. Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.
Rachel Caine
#17. I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
Jane Austen
#18. I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone's fickle brain . . .
Brian M. Holmes
#19. But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
Richard Dawkins
#20. Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
Lauren Bacall
#21. I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
Susan Sontag
#22. A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
Emily Dickinson
#23. The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
Mick Jagger
#24. So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights.
Robert Lanza
#25. She had thought dead was something more permanent, or at least something more obviously not alive.
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. [ Osama bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
Donald Rumsfeld
#27. What, you don't eat fat people?'
'Fat ... not alive. Waste product. Need meet.
Isaac Marion
#28. If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life ... San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.
William, Saroyan
#29. All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
David Hockney
#31. I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
Hamilton Jordan
#32. I'm not alive." She heard fury climbing to the top of his voice. "I'm a leper. Outcast unclean. Lepers are ugly and filthy. And abominable." His words filled her with horror and protest. "How can it be?" she moaned. "You are not - abominable. What world is it that dares treat you so?
Stephen R. Donaldson
#33. By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.
Jean Genet
#34. Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layered
will make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the window
do what faces usually do they open onto a genetic history
that looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive
Cole Swensen
#35. Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.
Philip K. Dick
#37. Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.
Isabel Lucas
#38. 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
#39. Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks
#40. It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
#42. Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
Ratan Tata
#43. We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
Lennart Nilsson
#44. Public schools go on year after year. They don't die because they are not alive.
Natalie Goldberg
#45. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Geoffrey Beene
#46. 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
#48. The knocker chuckled. Alive? I'm made of bronze. I do not breathe, nor do I eat or drink. So, no, I am not alive. Nor am I dead, for that matter. I simply exist.
Sarah J. Maas
#49. You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.
Mark Lawrence
#50. Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two thousand years ago because he is alive right now.
Christian Wiman
#52. Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.
Molly Ivins
#53. You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you'll cross the border and be with me. I'm so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#54. Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#55. We're not alive to be alone on the planet. We're alive to share, to eat together and love together and laugh together and cry together. If you can never love because you will always lose, what reason is there to live?
Jackie Kay
#57. Now I've gone for too long
Living like I'm not alive
So I'm going to start over tonight
Beginning with you and I
Hayley Williams
#58. Love is for life.
Life is for love.
Without love there is no life.
Without life love is not alive.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
Phyllis McGinley
#61. No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
Banana Yoshimoto
#62. To first understand the concept of a haunted doll, one must realize that the doll itself does not posses life. In other words, the doll is not alive. In theory, the doll is haunted by the soul of a person who has passed on. A haunted doll is a spiritual attachment, a haunted item.
Matthew Jackson
#63. This is what those who haven't crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn't mean that they do not exist.
Julian Barnes
#64. What's the point?" her father muttered brokenly the day of the funeral. In the last months his shoulders had curled like an autumn leaf.
"The point is that we're not alive unless we also die," Louise said.
Danika Stone
#65. If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
Amy Bloom
#66. But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough.
John Green
#67. It is through such failure and weeping that the Abba of Jesus conforms us to the image of His Son. Yet if our faith is not alive and dynamically operative, suffering is absurd, pointless.
Brennan Manning
#68. all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die.
John Fante
#69. Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return
though I can't imagine that
to love is a proof of life
indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
Pearl S. Buck
#70. Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.
John Steinbeck
#72. 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
#73. I try to tell myself I'm not schizophrenic. But when I'm not acting, I'm not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I'm more focused, more interesting when I'm working.
Swoosie Kurtz
#74. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.
Alexandra Fuller
#76. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#77. Perhaps in body I am not quite as real as you," he said, then looked alive, making him once again seem real, even though she knew that if she tried to touch him, she could not. "But my thoughts and emotions are as real as yours. My soul, Mia Randall, is as real as yours.
Suzannah Daniels
#78. I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.
Scott Walker
#79. Thin Burning Light Gun
If the car found life, it could try to use this gun to learn about it, but the life might not be alive when it was done.
Randall Munroe
#80. 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
#81. The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
Richard Crossman
#82. I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams
#83. It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.
Lord David Cecil
#84. If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.
Tom Robbins
#85. The incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
Marya Mannes
#86. I chose Dauntless not because they are perfect, but because they are alive, they are free.
Veronica Roth
#87. 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
#88. I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.
Alan Arkin
#89. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#90. For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.
Christian Lacroix
#91. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.
Gregory Maguire
#92. Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
Marty Rubin
#93. Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
Lucy Larcom
#94. But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who was in love with either/or.
Margaret Atwood
#95. Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.
Allen Tate
#96. O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
John Piper
#97. I would like to choose my own warrior name. If it is all right, I wish to be known as Crowfeather." Crowpaw spoke so quietly, his voice was almost lost in the pounding water. "I wish to keep alive the memory of . . . of the cat who did not return from the first journey.
Erin Hunter
#98. I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.
Lisa Genova
#99. If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.
Christian Louboutin
#100. To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.
Ander Monson
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