Alive Quote by Karen Russell Download Open image “It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.” — Karen Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Fierce Loneliness Lonely Purity
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know.… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living — John Fante Copy Share Image
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Once Mom and Ossie and I spent an afternoon alone together in her hospital room. We were watching the small TV above her head… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.” — Karen Russell 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
