Alive Quotes

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. I...

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perc...

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily ...

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their ...

Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "livin...

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...

I work to stay alive.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious,...

And then we cowardswho loved the whisperingevening, the houses,the paths by the river,the dirty red ...

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be complete...

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand a...

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it a...

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or...

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindran...

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after...

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'...

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t rea...

He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It...

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is th...

Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pu...

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm no...

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...

You're playing with fire," she warned him."That's how I know I'm alive.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really ma...

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still aliv...

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.