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Quotes About Alive

I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.
~ Derek Landy
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~ Ezra Pound
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
~ Henri Nouwen
It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.
~ Brendon Burchard
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
~ Thomas Sowell
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~ Agatha Christie
Dobbiamo amare ciò che è stato ferito, perché tutto è stato ferito. E amare le ferite vuol dire avere a cuore il mondo. Vuol dire essere vivi. Vuol dire che il mondo è vivo.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
You are in no position to make threats to me." "I don't have to be. Even if you shoot me, you can be sure you'll never get away from Hart. He's a fucking obsessed bastard, and he's touchy about people harming his sisters-in-law. You will be praying to have me alive once Hart is on your trail.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Kicked my ass is what he did," Zander said as he laid towels around the wound. "Embarrassing. Polar bear Shifters are the biggest predators alive, and I let a tiger kick my butt.
~ Jennifer Ashley
I know now! I know what it means to be alive! Love is its own magic. And it's strong. So strong!
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Consciousness is like the cosmos multiplied by the number of people alive in the world (assuming that consciousness dies when we do, and it may not) because each of our minds is a cosmos of its own: unknowable, even to ourselves.
~ Jennifer Egan
I have to remind myself to breathe— almost to remind my heart to beat! And it is like bending back a stiff spring: it is by compulsion that I do the slightest act not prompted by one thought; and by compulsion that I notice anything alive or dead, which is not associated with one universal idea.
~ Emily Bronte
I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, Oh, no, where's that big bit gone? but she's not really mad because raw things make us extra alive.
~ Emma Donoghue
But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?
~ Emma Donoghue
You can't be a little bit dead. If you're not in the ground yet, you're one hundred per cent alive.
~ Emma Donoghue
It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.
~ Epictetus
I didn't like the looks of those other grave robbers. You were the first women who's noticed me in years and I thought you were beautiful." "Are you flirting?" "If I were alive, perhaps," he replied, "but as it is, I don't think we could be more than friends.
~ Amy Neftzger
Still, my sister alive meant more to me than any coin.
~ Amy Timberlake
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
~ Arca
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
~ Lil Wayne
It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
~ Chloe Pirrie
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
~ Adam Ant