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Alive Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be…
- That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then…
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past…
- What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?
- Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
- We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out…
- If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
- How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit…
- ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always…
- Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
- But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By…
More Alive Quotes
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think,… — Marcus Aurelius
- I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all… — James A. Baldwin
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be… — Travis Barker
- As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've… — Roseanne Barr
- The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr