Quotes About Being Alive Again

#1. Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Sebastian Faulks

#2. And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

Deepika Padukone

#4. I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Mary Lou Retton

#5. How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Kingsley Amis

#6. Every time we think about being happy again, it hurts to be alive.
Because it seems an inordinate thing for us to wish for.
And because we think that day will never come for us.
And that's why the only thing we can do for now ...
... is just try to get through each night.

Chica Umino

#7. It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.

N. T. Wright

#8. I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

May Sarton

#9. I was not born to wait.

Gwenda Bond

#10. To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Ana Monnar

#11. Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

Stephen Dunn

#12. As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

David Maraniss

#13. But we ourselves would not be alive if some innocent Being had not first seen us. That was the act that planted the seed of the whole universe, and it was an act of love. You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.

Deepak Chopra

#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. My dark prince. The reaper. The man who spilled blood for me without pause. For that reason alone he'll always be on a pedestal that no other can reach. He'll always be the memory I revisit in my darkest of times.

A. Zavarelli

#16. When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced.

Tony Bennett

#17. I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.

Vikki Wakefield

#18. Starting the Day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

Carew Papritz

#19. When you withhold trust within intercultural business contexts, how are you making the decision to not trust someone?

Sherwood Fleming

#20. He enjoys the passivity of sitting in a classroom again, listening to an instructor, being told what to do. He is reminded of being a student, of a time when his father was still alive.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'Life is worth living
Through every grain of it
From the foundations
To the last edge
Of the cornerstone, death.

William Ernest Henley

#22. We had tasted what it was like being dead. We had rolled it around in our mouths and swallowed it and now the stink from it was coming from us. We weren't all right. We would have to learn to be alive again.

Walter Dean Myers

#23. Again,' he said and, without waiting for an answer, ran into the growing dark without fear, every single part of his body overwhelmed with the task of being alive.

Kevin Wilson

#24. Just Another Number was meant to be unresolved because resolving it would destroy its authenticity. It's a memoir. I am unresolved as a human being. And it also leaves room for a sequel.

Maggie Young

#25. I thought I lost you again. You couldn't know what those four years were like. To not know where you were, who you were with, or if you were being treated well? I wasn't sure for a long time if you were even alive. I don't ever want to go through that again. Vance ... The Elder Effect

D.L. Given

#26. It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing ... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Tom Stoppard

#27. He was struck again by that odd sense of somehow being more alive than he'd been just seconds earlier.

Julia Quinn