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Quotes About Alive

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Matter becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth becomes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
The idiot's still alive!" Mom cried. "And he's still an idiot!
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
~ Susan Cooper
Because that was the whole point of every person's journey. To be alive. To live and to keep moving forward.
~ Susan Mallery
The "Art Nouveau" appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. "I'm alive." "I'm decorative.
~ Susan Sontag
it's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way—but not wholly) relieve it. I am infinite—I must never forget it … I want sensuality and sensitivity, both … I was more alive and satisfied with H than I have ever been with anyone else … Let me never deny that … I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments …
~ Susan Sontag
the difference between a story and a painting or photograph is that in a story you can write, He's still alive. But in a painting or a photo you can't show "still." You can just show him being alive.
~ Susan Sontag
That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young and old. It lifts the spirit and touches the heart, when it stops it lives on inside you, making you richer in mind and spirit.
~ Josephine Cox
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
~ Josh McDowell
I kept my secrets, telling myself that they were the past. I ignored the ones that were still alive. The ones that touched every current breath, the ones I couldn't even tell myself.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Your child dreads to become alive and real because he fears that in doing so, the risk of annihilation is immediately potentiated.
~ Joy Williams
Those times a person feels most afraid for their life? Those are the times you know you're alive.
~ Joyce Maynard
it was reassuring to her to be ill, for then she had the confirmation that her body was indeed her own, that it had limits, that it was alive, and that she herself was a separate individual who was in no danger of losing her sense of subjective identity. While these were not the causes of her illnesses, they were, so to speak, secondary benefits.
~ Joyce McDougall
with all the bad news expunged? Mallarino had never been able to understand that: for him it was the indignation or rage or hatred that kept him alive. How could anyone renounce the intense feeling of superiority one feels when hating someone? It was the emotion that made mornings make sense.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
~ Judy Collins
Many were hostile to Hitler but many more were seduced by the new "faith." It was "buoyant exciting and alive. It was not patronizing. It broke down social barriers, provided pageantry and stimulus." It was, in a nutshell, a new gospel.
~ Julia Boyd
And so I wrote. With slavering gusts of animal rage, I wrote- howling like a wolf, bellowing like a patchwork creature composed of stinking corpse parts, my monster face distorted with fury, my skin straining against the crude black stitches that affixed it to the pulsing musculature beneath. I was alive! Every nerve within me sparked with rage
~ Julia Elliott
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
~ Julia Quinn
the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ—one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way. "Penelope
~ Julia Quinn
She hated the noise and the streaks of light, and the crackling tension in the air, but most of all she hated what it made her feel. ~ Kate God, he loved thunderstorms. Hard to tell why. Maybe it was just the proof of nature's power over man. Maybe it was the sheer energy of the light and sound that pounded around him. Whatever the case, it made him feel alive. ~ Anthony
~ Julia Quinn
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
~ Judy Collins
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
~ Chevy Chase