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Quotes About Alive

we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others
~ Brene Brown
It is through such failure and weeping that the Abba of Jesus conforms us to the image of His Son. Yet if our faith is not alive and dynamically operative, suffering is absurd, pointless.
~ Brennan Manning
If our faith is alive and luminous, we will be alert to moments, events and occasions when the power of the resurrection is brought to bear on our lives.
~ Brennan Manning
History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.
~ Helene Hanff
Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The task of genius is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think only miraculously, die miraculously.
~ Henry Miller
Such a healthy, simple, approving glance as if he were saying to himself: "Ah, spring is coming!" And God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
~ Henry Miller
Estoy muerto espiritualmente. Físicamente, estoy vivo. Moralmente, soy libre.
~ Henry Miller
I speak in cosmological terms because it seems to me that is the only possible way to think if one is truly alive. I think this way also because it is just the opposite of the way I thought a few years back when I had what is called hopes. Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions.
~ Henry Miller
Perhaps you can visualize him saying a thing like that! Myself it's not clear what his idea of me was, or at any rate, it's clear that I was just pure idea, an idea that kept itself alive without food.
~ Henry Miller
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
~ Henry Miller
His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn't care. 'He's alive!' Blue said again 'He's breathing!' 'I can't see him breathing.
~ Herbie Brennan
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
~ Maurice Sendak
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
When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.
~ Matisyahu
Hope keeps us alive. Life is interesting because of egocentric hope and love full sprit.
~ Debasish Mridha
Hope is the magic of life, it keeps us alive.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Hope keeps us alive. Love gives us joy. Perception of inner joy open the door toward the happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
~ J. K. Rowling
I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
~ Pat Paulsen
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.
~ Patti Smith
Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!
~ Joseph Simmons