Alive Quote by Ethan Canin Download Open image “You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.” — Ethan Canin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Dies
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“The forgotten of this country have a consistent history of turning on their champions, and I suppose the way working men and women have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Now she was smiling. “And while you’re at it,” she said, “here’s another one for you. Theodicy. That’s another word Leibniz used. As long… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
