Alive Quotes - Page 33

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

If I'm not the sexiest man alive, explain why so many women married me.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

My religion is to be alive from LOVE.