It grows because it's alive.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

— Andrea Dworkin

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you…

— Cynthia Ozick

Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in…

— Chogyam Trungpa

No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive…

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

— Charles Dickens

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

— Maureen Duffy

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

— James Haven

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

— David Krieger

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

— Bob Costas

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

— Orson Scott Card

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

— Marianne Williamson

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

— Tariq Ramadan

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