Alive Quotes (page 8)

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• soul
• most
• covet

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. William Shakespeare

• crying
• church
• mother

Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Back! Foul best of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?" and a nervous inquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers. Neil Gaiman

• night
• words
• things

Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• book
• mind
• mindfulness

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit Stephen King

• believe
• wishes
• quitting

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted. W. H. Auden

• true
• play
• long

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. John Steinbeck

• work
• career
• creator

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. Madeleine L'Engle

• losing hope
• wall
• manly

The man who is walled up alive has nothing to lose; the prisoner still has hope. Hope is the leash of submission. When power's boiler is in danger of exploding, it uses its safety-valve to lower the pressure. It seems to change; in fact it only adapts itself and resolves its difficulties. Raoul Vaneigem

• learning
• cool
• live

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is. Dig and be dug. In return. Langston Hughes

• die
• to live
• old

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old. George Orwell

• hope
• she
• die

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part. Toni Morrison

• die
• calm
• butterfly

Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning. Now you are no longer caughtin the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-makingsweeps you upward. Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• lion
• lions
• truly

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. Isak Dinesen

• love
• evening
• you are loved

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. Mitch Albom

• mexican
• rather
• frying

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans. Roald Dahl