Alive Quotes · Page 83

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

— Anonymous

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

— Kabir

It doesnt mean you are alive because you are out of bed but you are probably dead if you are in bed.

— Vikrant Parsai

Being glad that you're alive is a way to pick yourself up and rebuild a lot better.

— Senoraroy

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

— Paul Bremer

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being…

— Joseph Campbell

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

— Arthur Boyd

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden,…

— Robert Kroetsch

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream…

— Mark Kennedy

I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas…

— Bill Reid

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing…

— Robert Henri

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when…

— Gerard Butler

To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's…

— Thomas Huxley

I’m so jealous,” she whispered, and he blinked. “Of what?” Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at…

— Larissa Ione

When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,…

— Anna Quindlen

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are…

— Bessel van der Kolk

Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was…

— Anonymous

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our…

— Simon Schama

We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live…

— Anne Lamott

Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted…

— Hal Porter

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to…

— Allen Crawford

You aren't angry " "You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks

— Lynsay Sands

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

— Erich Fromm

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.”

— Sebastian Faulks

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing…

— Douglas Kennedy

I had an arrogance that was beyond that of any other human being alive.

— John DeLorean

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

— Thornton Wilder

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

— Morrie Schwartz

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

— Philip K. Dick

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

— Howard Nemerov

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

— Dorothy Dandridge

“There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive. I don't want to miss a second.”

— Hannah Harrington

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

— Humphrey Bogart

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

— Anonymous

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me…

— Hedda Hopper