Top 100 We Are Alive Quotes
#1. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
Ray Bradbury
#2. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#3. The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.
Michael Crichton
#4. My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch, and that we be conscious and sensorially attuned to this world in this moment that we are alive.
Karim Rashid
#5. It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck?
Melissa Broder
#6. Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive
Kirk Douglas
#7. We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.
Becky Albertalli
#9. Life is too short to not to be grateful for every moment we are alive.Today I have so much to be thankful for.
Demi Lovato
#10. We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#11. Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don't know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you've got nothing to worry about.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#12. A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
Philip K. Dick
#13. And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight
So unawares comes on perpetual night,
And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.
Anne Bradstreet
#14. First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation.
Ray Bradbury
#15. Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Stephen Leacock
#16. Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him.
William, Saroyan
#17. Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel.
Iyanla Vanzant
#18. John, we cannot allow the shadow-sickness to find a place inside our hearts. In this broken cosmos we grieve. We rightly feel fury, but we must not let go of joy's embrace, which is beyond our understanding. To feel all of this means that we are alive.
Wm. Paul Young
#19. We are alive and in the world and that is beautiful and everything.
Marty Rubin
#21. There is a greater day coming, a greater reward coming, a greater life coming, and the purpose of life while we are alive is to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel, which holds the promise of life everlasting.
Matt Chandler
#22. Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.
Trystan Owain Hughes
#23. Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!
Carl Nielsen
#24. But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.
Anne Rice
#25. Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we're like ghosts, the two of us, even though we're not supposed to exist, we are alive.
Banana Yoshimoto
#26. Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life ... , our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Nhat Hanh
#27. Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.
Amy Poehler
#28. We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#29. Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#30. I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive.
Daniel H. Wilson
#31. Its not the respect we hold when we are alive but after death!!
-Mahesh Shekhar
Mahesh Shekhar
#32. Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
David Fontana
#33. My dear daughter,
As you will see if ever you receive this, we are alive. . . .
Diana Gabaldon
#34. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.
Frederick Lenz
#36. We are haunted houses of history.
Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
Stefan Molyneux
#37. We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
Catherynne M Valente
#39. Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
Henri Nouwen
#40. Never forget: we are alive within mysteries." - Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
#41. Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.
Steven Adler
#43. We are alive on the very brink of eternity.
Peter Carey
#44. Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.
Geraldine Brooks
#45. Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
Carl Sagan
#47. We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna
Sister Souljah
#48. The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.
Zoran Djindjic
#49. How do you describe that we are alive, but not a an object from a picture. What makes you to think that you are not an image?
Deyth Banger
#50. I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
Charles Dickens
#51. While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
Jack Vance
#52. Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
Natalie Goldberg
#53. The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.)
Charles De Leusse
#54. We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.
Jay Woodman
#55. Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,
Marie Howe
#56. Will this be the end of it?'
'There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that is good.
Diana Gabaldon
#57. We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.
Mary Balogh
#58. We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.
Joseph Monninger
#59. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.
Ann D. Clark
#60. Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be.
Anne Lamott
#61. The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.
Winston Graham
#62. We are alive within mystery, by miracle ... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
Wendell Berry
#63. If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.
Swami Satchidananda
#65. Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive
Sunday Adelaja
#66. We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
William, Saroyan
#68. someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.
Declan McGonagle
#69. When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
Jasper Johns
#72. It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
Thomas L. Friedman
#73. As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
Tara Brach
#74. My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#75. Embrace the fact that we are human. We are flawed, we aren't invincible, but we are resilient, and we are alive. So we need to live as such
Brandon Lawrence
#76. One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.
Arinna Weisman
#77. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
Jeanette Winterson
#78. One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.
Eric Schiffer
#79. God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
Randy Owen
#80. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
#81. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#82. It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
John Green
#83. You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don't know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.
Victoria Aveyard
#84. There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
Rahul Dravid
#85. When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
Tara Brach
#86. There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
Dave Matthews
#87. Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything ... It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#88. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!
Martin Van Buren
#89. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.
Miguel Ruiz
#90. There's a bigger cause out there. It's bigger than any of us here. But we stick together, all right? We stick together and look out for each other. Because you four are all I've got left. And I'm not going to see you die. Forever alive, all right? We're not going to die."
-Sirius Black
Mordred
#91. Good to see you alive, Penryn," says Obi.
"Good to be alive," I say. "Are we having
movie nights?
Susan Ee
#92. Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives.
Demi Lovato
#93. Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places ... where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call our home.
Peace Gypsy
#94. 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
#95. We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with a destination somewhere in the unseeable distance.
Nobody ever waves at buses.
Douglas Coupland
#96. All stories are true, Astrea. By speaking them aloud, we bring them to life. Once words mingle with breath and sound, they become something new and alive.
Hilary Thompson
#97. Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
Paulo Coelho
#98. We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.
Salley Vickers
#99. Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive
Euripides
#100. If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Rodney Brooks
