What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that…

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

— Campbell McGrath

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

— George Orwell

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

— Cornel West

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

— Bernard Malamud

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

— Mark Nepo

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

— Richard Basehart

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It…

— Jodi Picoult

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of…

— Eckhart Tolle

Living freely means being able to freely communicate in your native language and to be guided by the 10th article of the constitution, which…

— Petro Poroshenko

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all…

— June Jordan

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

— Herman Melville

“Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.”

— Robert Bolt

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

— Mason Cooley

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

— Gautama Buddha