Alive Quotes - Page 37

He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

There's place and means for every man alive.

I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.