Alive Quotes

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.