Alive Quotes · Page 68

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

“I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.”

— Jill Telford

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

— T. S. Eliot

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything…

— Michael Crichton

I'm alive again, more alive that I've been in ma whole entire life!

— Eminem

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

— August Weismann

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

— Anonymous

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody…

— Aimee Bender

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive… It's difficult to say what makes a…

— Max Frisch

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day…

— George R. R. Martin

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like…

— Gay Talese

There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that…

— Neil Gaiman

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive…

— Steve Earle

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and…

— Lamar Hunt

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage…

— Howard Thurman

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from…

— Yasmina Khadra

His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a…

— Jonathan Maberry

So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's…

— Denis Johnson

The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only…

— Henry Giroux

Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I…

— Susan Abulhawa

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging…

— Anonymous

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

— Boris Pasternak

Crying isn't a sign of weakness. Since birth, it's always been a sign that you're alive.

— Unkown

“Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I just staunchly bought one frame during a two-for-one frame sale and barely left the store alive.

— Dana Gould

I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.

— Riya Sen

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

— Norman Mailer

They left her alone with her thoughts and her thoughts ate her alive.

— Anonymous

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

— Amanda Lindhout

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

— Joan Rivers

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

— Stephen Karam

Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

— e. e. cummings

Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.

— Thiago Alcantara

How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and…

— Mary Oliver