Alive Quotes

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

I really like it. I really, really like it. Ah, ah, ah, ah...buried alive...buried alive.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.