Quotes About Alive

I love stillness. Slowness. When nothing is happening. The blueness of the sky. Inhaling clear air. Birdsong over traffic. Lone footsteps. Spring flowers blooming with defiance. I used to think the quiet patches felt dead. Now they feel more alive. Like leaning over and listening to the earth's heartbeat.

she was now proud of and pleased with, a truth she had not only come to terms with but welcomed openly, with every fiery molecule of her being. A truth that she scribbled hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person present tense. A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible. A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive.

Thou art a monument without a tomb And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.

The "treasure," he declared flatly, did not involve gold or precious stones. On the contrary, it consisted of "incontrovertible proof" that the Crucifixion was a fraud and that Jesus was alive as late as A.D. 45.

It's so easy to for tragedy to defeat you. It's seductive in the way that I heard freezing to death is. Being consumed by grief is in many ways much more comfortable than battling your way out of it - especially when you realize that no matter how hard you fight you can't reverse the situation you're grieving over. But it's so important to engage in the battle anyway. It's really the only way to stay alive.

I will still feel some importance in altering the room, because there you were, the pastiche of some lovely distant star as I surrounded only my small self, still alive.

It's a a damn good day to be alive.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. The music plays in my ears and I float further and further away from war. Fucking Baghdad.

It feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive..

The stink came from the prison cubicle next door. Old Ben was in there and Ben was the dirtiest man alive.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

Why would anyone want to feel pain or fear?" Josh wondered aloud, both intrigued and repelled by the very idea. It seemed somehow wrong. "So they can feel alive," Scatty said.

If you were extremely unlucky, the forest spiders would get to you first and lay their eggs in you." "Why is that considered extremely unlucky?" "You'd still be alive when the eggs hatched." "That is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever heard," Shakespeare muttered. He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pencil. "I've got to make a note of that.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

You're as spiritual as you are comfortable being alive.' And

man would transcend his insignificance only to the extent to which it is possible to make himself symbolic, to incarnate alive a symbol in his own soul, that immanence.