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Quotes About Alive

But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
~ Matt de la Pena, We Were Here
Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.
~ Annabeth Albert, Baked Fresh
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals and to protect them when possible.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I let the sun hit me. The sun's some kind of gift. Another day we're all alive. I wish she could understand. I'm just happy to be alive.
~ Jami Attenberg
Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive . One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...
~ Jane Yolen
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
~ Jaques Derrida
Snoke's escape shuttle is gone," the general replied. Kylo considered that. Rey had recovered first. She must have realized he was at her mercy, yet she'd left him alive. Almost as if she cared for him.
~ Jason Fry
Tea and water give each oter life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water virality,' he added. '... Afterwards, the taste still happens... It rises like velvet... It is a performance.
~ Jason Goodwin
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
~ Jasper Johns
If 180 million people want to be undead, that's their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
~ E.E. Cummings
Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
~ Ebelsain Villegas
The mind is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To the people who told these stories all the universe was alive with the same kind of life they knew in themselves.
~ Edith Hamilton
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
~ Edith Sitwell
You've arranged it delightfully,' he rejoined, alive to the flatness of the words, but imprisoned in the conventional by his consuming desire to be simple and striking
~ Edith Wharton
Do not all these things interest you? Isn't it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?
~ Edmund Morris
Brothers who are alive today, when we are gone, do not be hard, but pity us Beg God's forgiveness for us now, that He may sooner pity you, when you are dust. It
~ Edward Rutherfurd
If there is a heaven, it should be like all the places you love or the places you've never been but wish you'd visited while you were still alive. -Giselle
~ Edwidge Danticat
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.
~ Aldo Leopold
It was said she mourned her beauty, which people still spoke of as of a vanished champion from another age. She had buried herself alive in public, on
~ Alexander Chee
He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.
~ Alfred Bester
I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.
~ Rupert Murdoch
You know every wave is so different. It just depends on the ride, like when you come down and you don't make the wave and you get blown up and you just feel like so small, but also so alive, because you're at the mercy of this monster and its gotten hold of you and shaking you and rattling you.
~ Garrett McNamara