Alive Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once…

— Galileo Galilei

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“...having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q”

— Luther Blissett

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to…

— James Joyce

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

— Anonymous

“To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood -…

— Katherine Woodward Thomas

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to…

— Amy Carmichael

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable…

— Lisa Lucas

Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of…

— Tom Harpur

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan