Alive Quotes · Page 79

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

— Ethan Canin

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

— Henry David Thoreau

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

— George Carlin

“I loved that vulnerable excitement when he first caught sight of something that made him feel before he could cover it up.”

— Emily Henry

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our…

— Elie Wiesel

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

— Jaggi Vasudev

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

— DeRay Mckesson

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

— Bai Ling

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just…

— Jaggi Vasudev

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You…

— David Letterman

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

— Anne Lamott

How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass…

— Hanshan

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional…

— Muriel Rukeyser

If your talking about the Summerdale house and the bodies found there, we feel that some of them died of drug overdose,…

— John Wayne Gacy

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of…

— Dean Koontz

Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you…

— Gunter Grass

So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to…

— Wayne Dyer

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal…

— Neil Gaiman

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you…

— Ernest Hemingway

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

— Joel Osteen

I want to be there for my children. You want to make sure you're alive more than anything.

— Nick Cannon

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

— Haruki Murakami

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

— Chita Rivera

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

— John Wyndham

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

— Mike Nichols

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.

— Stephenie Meyer

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

— Robert Thurman

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

— John Lydon

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

— Martha Graham

“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.”

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

— Oriana Fallaci

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

— John Green

When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.

— Mannie Fresh