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Quotes About Alive

If you ever want to feel like you're on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you're being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.
~ John Scalzi
Unless this was the afterlife. But I doubted it was. I'm not much of a religious person, but most afterlives that I'd heard of were something more than a blank nothingness. If God or gods existed, and this was all they put together for eternal life, I wasn't very impressed with their user experience. So: probably alive.
~ John Scalzi
This is beyond understanding. said the king. You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself? And Merlin said quietly, Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
~ John Steinbeck
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm alive, I think, and so many of my friends are not. I may be nuts to be doing this, but I'm kind of proud of myself. I am having an adventure. I like my life. Even if I have to stand here for the rest of it.
~ John Waters
I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.
~ Nikki DeLoach
The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
~ Joy Harjo
My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
~ Nick Cave
Time reminds us that we are still alive and have a lot of work to do.
~ Unknown
Two things that are never promised, life and happiness, but as long as you're alive, find and do what makes you happy!
~ Unknown
Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, Feelings we can't never get back again, That's a part of what it means to be alive.
~ Unknown
Pain is a very important part of our life... it makes you feel alive...
~ Unknown
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
~ Unknown
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
~ e e cummings
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
~ Mel Brooks
Life is made up of special moments which make it worth living. There are many cherished moments that are missed due to the stress and fast pace of daily living. We must slow down and remember how precious it is to be alive and to love!!!!
~ Unknown
Victory is your blueprint, Life is your guide, Process are your steps, Fear is your Strength, Decision makes your future, Mistakes are your reference, Pain tells you that you are still alive and being alive tells you that your VICTORY is not yet accomplished.
~ Unknown
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
~ Unknown
You fall, you rise, you make mistakes, you live, you learn. You're human, not perfect. You've been hurt, but you're alive. Think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, and to be with people you love. Sometimes there is sadness in our journey, but there is also lots of beauty. We must keep putting one foot in front of the other even when we hurt, for we will never know what is waiting for us just around the bend.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
friends being friends only in the sense of a sweet madness which overcomes us in life and to which we yield, though at the back of our minds we know it to be the error of a lunatic who imagines the furniture to be alive and talks to it)
~ Marcel Proust
I'm an Austin slacker. Blue skies and a string of lakes like jewels, good Mexican food and a great live music scene keep our species alive with remarkably little cash flowing
~ Unknown
I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.
~ Margaret Way