Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that…

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Richard Louv

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

— Huston Smith

“Be careful of whom you trust. Sometimes knowledge from the dead has a way of cursing the living.”

— Laura Thalassa

“Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of…

— Ray Bradbury

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

— Albert Einstein

I admire orderly friend ! a man without knowledge is as one that is dead ! what you think concerning !

— Kamal

My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering…

— George Carlin

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly…

— Malika Oufkir

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and…

— Frederick Lenz

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

— David Bowie

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

— Adam Ant

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen