Quotes About Vitality

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive.

Teníamos calor y temblábamos, éramos jóvenes y ancianos, y estábamos vivos. Yo pensaba: "Es cierto. Ya nos queremos." Ya nos queremos.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. (p. 24)

Teníamos calor y temblábamos, Éramos jóvenes y ancianos, Y estábamos vivos.

Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.

Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities—something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

London only stimulates, it cannot sustain

I shall want to live, I tell you.

There was indeed something rather incongruous in Lucy's moral outburst over Mr. Eager. It was as if one should see the Leonardo on the ceiling of the Sistine. He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman's power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant. But possibly rant is a sign of vitality: it mars the beautiful creature, but shows that she is alive.

I wanna live 'til I die. No more, no less.

When branches are pruned, more of the life of the vine goes into producing the fruit. Without pruning, each year more and more of the sap of the vine goes into sustaining more and more branches and leaves, and each year the fruit is a bit smaller than it was last year. Just as God prunes our lives, removing those good things that bore fruit in the previous season of our lives so all of our energy can be poured into new areas of growth, God does the same thing in the church.

God is the salsa of life.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

For any sustained and more or less original work it seems most necessary that one should have the quietude and strength of Nature at hand, like a great reservoir from which to draw. The open air, and the physical and mental health that goes with it, the sense of space and freedom of the Sky, the vitality and amplitude of the Earth -- these are real things from which one can only cut oneself off at serious peril and risk to one's immortal soul.

Let us then rejoice, While we are young.