Top 100 Quotes About Alive
#1. If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew ... An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
Stephen Spender
#2. Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
Joss Whedon
#3. I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#4. Disappear while you are alive! The less you talk about yourself, the less you think about yourself, the journey to disappearance begins! Forget about yourself! Disappear! When you go, universe will replace your place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think.
Sam Pink
#6. Life is never that simple. And the fact that it's not that simple to you means only one thing: You're still alive.
Carrie Ryan
#7. Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.
Charles Baxter
#8. The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
Cormac McCarthy
#9. To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?
Anne Lamott
#10. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.
Jes Fuhrmann
#11. Omar realizes that the improbable fact of their survival also carries a hint of the divine. To be alive in this hole, against all odds, speaks to Omar of the existence of a higher power with some sort of plan for these still-living men.
Hector Tobar
#12. It would be nice to have something alive to hold on to right now, something to love me, something with a beating heart that I can feel, something to be with me as I sit here, in hell, trying to figure it out.
Caroline Kepnes
#13. Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
J.K. Rowling
#14. Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
Diane Ackerman
#15. Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
Meg Rosoff
#16. The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.
Ted Nugent
#17. If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,
My poor frail heart will have beat out its cry
And sadly miss thy sweet form all the more
While helplessly I stand and watch you die.
Timothy Salter
#19. The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.
Mary Oliver
#21. People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.
Bernie Mac
#22. If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour
#23. Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#24. If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
Patti Smith
#26. She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.
Sara Alexi
#27. All the feelings
Are dead inside me
And I want them
To be alive
David Levithan
#28. Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There
is nothing music can't do.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#29. 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
#30. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.
Milan Kundera
#31. The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.
How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking
Mary Stolz
#32. When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
John Lasseter
#33. He who wants to recognize what is alive and describe it, seeks first to drive the spirit out of it. Then, he holds the parts in his hands. But missing is the spirit's band.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#34. What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well?
Lurlene McDaniel
#35. You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.
Nick Lake
#36. That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
Tracy Kidder
#37. I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars Von Trier
#38. Was I a dreamer, looking for an elusive happiness that real life could never deliver? Or were we meant to know the rapture of being alive, even at the cost of breaking the rules?
Elizabeth Lesser
#39. A whisper in my ear hints towards the silent moment Knows I'm alive
Niche
#40. If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
Daniel Tammet
#41. Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.
Charlotte Rampling
#42. Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
Hannah Moskowitz
#43. If I had to do all the things I wanted in my life the time I have alive wouldn't be enough, so I choose those that keeps me closer to my purpose and God.
Evans Biya
#44. But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.
Jodi Picoult
#45. if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.
Why The Lucky Stiff
#46. Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive!
Octavia E. Butler
#47. Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening.
Art Hochberg
#48. We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.
Dean Koontz
#49. Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
Sammy Hagar
#50. Eh, I like the brisk, November wind on my balls. Makes me feel alive.
Ellis Leigh
#51. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
#53. She was drunk, and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. Death is every mortal's life to be alive!
Munia Khan
#55. Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.
Miguel Ruiz
#56. The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#58. He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up by the roots. Thus it happened that the relation heretofore existing between her brother and herself was changed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#59. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.
This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#60. I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
Thomas Ligotti
#61. For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
George Mallory
#62. If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.
Sylvia Dolson
#63. Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
Sadie Calvano
#64. 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
#65. In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.
Dorothy H Cohen
#67. Question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's
Tom Clancy
#68. As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#69. If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
Samantha Barks
#71. This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.
Carrie Vaughn
#72. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
Alexander Eliot
#73. Bad news is, they've figured out I'm alive. Worse news, I can't be sure about them. Their decomposing stench burns my throat. They don't sound very big. Maybe they're pygmy zombies.
A.G. Howard
#74. 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
#75. Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
Anne Lamott
#76. That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.
Glen Duncan
#77. If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.
John Irving
#78. I love you," said Aunt Lillian. "And I'm sorry you were buried alive. I hope you get over it quickly
Sarah Rees Brennan
#79. Daughter, he said in a voice like old wood breaking, can you ever forgive me?
I could only answer his question with one of my own. Putting my hand over his mouth, I whispered, Which of us would not sell all we had to stay alive?
Emma Donoghue
#80. He must be really dead to need so desperately to feel alive.
Pia Pera
#81. Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
Anne McCaffrey
#82. One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.
Arinna Weisman
#83. We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
Roberto Bolano
#84. You've been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that's where the future ones are headed. Remember that. All the days to come will vanish thus. What value or meaning can they contain? We are hoarders of dust.
Petronius Jablonski
#85. According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
Kage Baker
#86. I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. "Katniss ... he's still trying to keep you alive." To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.
Suzanne Collins
#88. Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
Rainbow Rowell
#89. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.
Libby Larsen
#90. 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
#91. It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.
Home Run Baker
#92. Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage.
Emily Haines
#93. Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
Carew Papritz
#94. He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was in a sense the ultimate act of selfishness since it left behind untold and endless suffering for those who had witnessed it and been unable to do anything to prevent it. And so I remained alive.
Mary Balogh
#96. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
#97. I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.
Richard Mourdock
#98. I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
#99. I'm still alive," Gabriel pointed out. "Nick is also still alive, as is Merit. Everybody wave.
Chloe Neill
