Alive Quote by Margaret Atwood

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing…

— Margaret Atwood

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that…

— Samuel Johnson

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

— E. Joseph Cossman

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified…

— Thornton Wilder

We need to celebrate our lives. One day, we're all going to be dead and gone, and be nothing more than a pile of…

— Pooja Bedi

“The remembrance of death is the beginning of a purposeful life”

— Sesan Kareem

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out…

— Bob Dole

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

— Washington Irving

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at…

— Adam Clarke

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

— Walt Disney