Alive Quotes · Page 74

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

— Patrick Ness

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

— Toni Morrison

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

— Robert H. Schuller

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!

— Joseph Simmons

I'm Still Here I'm Still Here Cause The Blood Still Have It's Power...

— 21:03 And Boys To Men

FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution…

— Noah Feldman

It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight…

— Rory Miller

I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get…

— Demetri Martin

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…

— Adam Gopnik

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff…

— Chow Yun-Fat

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die…

— Thomas Paine

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that…

— Allan Bloom

You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to…

— Rob Brezsny

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean…

— Liya Kebede

I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but…

— Peter Kreeft

“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can…

— John Locke

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…

— Sebastian Faulks

This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with…

— Pablo Neruda

Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and…

— Lenny Kaye

“If you’re not happy, then something is wrong. A person comes into the world as a happy being, yet over time, the…

— Leigh Hershkovich

You don't know what your Alive for until you know what you would die for.

— Tynee Williams

“If we make it out of this alive, I’ll kill you. So you have that to look forward to.”

— Jarod Kintz

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

— Havelock Ellis

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

— Arthur C. Clarke

You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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

— Orson Scott Card

The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

— Sonny Rollins

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with…

— Joan Didion

My track record - the bars, the delivery, the flow and the voice - makes Jadakiss top five dead or alive.

— Jadakiss

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

— Jackson Browne

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

— Rajneesh

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

— Anonymous

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the…

— Paul McCartney

Memphis was a great city back when Elvis was alive. A very electric, fun place to be, especially if Elvis was in…

— B. J. Thomas

Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.

— Randy Pausch