Alive Quotes · Page 83

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

— Bertolt Brecht

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

— Alan Watts

“There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.”

— Virginia Woolf

When you wake up you should be thankful to be alive and get to live another day.

— Nicole

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

— John Steinbeck

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

— Anonymous

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public…

— Banksy

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left…

— Anonymous

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid…

— Sinclair Lewis

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified…

— Anonymous

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will…

— Chris Cleave

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

— Alexander Eliot

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

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

Personally, I love to switch gears creatively, spending time on stage, on set, and in the studio, and continuing to chip away…

— Noah Reid

In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept…

— Frederick Franck

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding…

— David Foster Wallace

I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that…

— Keith Getty

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those…

— Mark Twain

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better…

— Nicholas Lemann

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…

— William Robertson Smith

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

— Elizabeth I

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a…

— Johannes Heesters

The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus…

— Colin S. Smith

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

— Iggy Pop

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

— Aya Kito

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

— Stephen King

I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

— Yitzhak Shamir

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

— Winona Ryder

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

— John Hodgman

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

— Cesare Pavese

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

— Jeff Baena

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love…

— Jay-Z

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

— Frances Mayes

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones…

— Evel Knievel

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

— Eudora Welty

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

— Leo Tolstoy