Alive Quote by Franz Kafka

“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate...but with…

— Franz Kafka

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both…

— Boethius

“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable as the…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

— Bob Dylan

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

— Franz Grillparzer

“This was the reason why, when he would try to remember how he looked when dead, he could remember nothing clearly except the powerful…

— Thomas Wolfe

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not…

— Alfred Adler

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer