Alive Quote by James Agee

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“Lazarus had studied those eyes during the long hours they had been shut up together in the control room. They bore an expression Lazarus…

— Robert Heinlein

“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image of my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“For a fleeting instant, in the sad curve of his shoulders, I saw what Comonot could not: the core of decency; the weight he…

— Rachel Hartman

“There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither…

— Roland Barthes

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion…

— Philip K. Dick

“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the pavement, completely…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was…

— Mitch Albom

“Abiding. No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was the second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought…

— David Foster Wallace

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“Seeing him brought in, has, I think, saved me from losing my mind; for that I do not thank him-sanity, after all is only…

— Gene Wolfe