Alive Quotes - Page 46

A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.

I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these little lives of their own that are stretched and pulled, and I do conceive of my music in a very narrative way.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self.

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.