Alive Quotes - Page 32

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.