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Quotes About Alive

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.
~ Alex Ebert
Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.
~ Unknown
Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.
~ Jon Foreman
These scars on my body, I'll never regret. Cause at one point they'll be proof I was alive when I was dead inside. And then they'll see what they did to me
~ Unknown
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and its the worst.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
I need your love, I need your time, when everything's wrong You make it right. I feel so high, I come alive, I need to be free with you tonight.
~ Calvin Harris
Eternal God, rock and refuge... we wait for revival and release. Abide with us until we come alive in the sunrise of your glory. Amen.
~ Unknown
I dont believe people are looking for the meaning of life but they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~ Unknown
I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am conforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
Circe, he says, it will be alright. [...] and somehow, I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
~ Maggie Nelson
Esme straightens up, weighing the pebble in her palm. 'No,' she says. 'Were they burnt or strangled? Witches were strangled to death in parts of Scotland, weren't they? Or buried alive.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
In Damascus: the traveler sings to himself: I return from Syria neither alive nor dead but as clouds that ease the butterfly's burden from my fugitive soul
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Belief in the supernatural is another powerful route to overcoming the very natural desire to stay alive.
~ Malcolm Potts
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
~ Malcolm X
We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.
~ Unknown
We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.
~ Unknown
ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.
~ Marcel Proust
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion and in ourselves. No-one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.
~ John O'Donohue
Imagination according to William Blake is about the awakening to and recognition of the sacredness of all the difference that there is. Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake.
~ John O'Donohue
Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.
~ John O'Donohue
I say, then, that mortification is the work of believers, and believers only. To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. 2.
~ John Owen
The gun locked open and he slammed another magazine in. As he did it, he either saw or imagined he saw a ripple moving through the cornfield and fired four more shots at it, then stopped, crouched, and stepped sideways across the nose of the truck, saw Robertson facedown in the driveway gravel. He was alive, pushing up with his hands, getting nowhere.
~ John Sandford