Quotes About Vitality

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

Exista nenumarate feluri de a fi viu, dar un singur fel de a fi mort.

Sa fi jurat ca sufletul, e si el, un animal cu plamani si nari, ca are nevoie de mult oxigen si ca se inabusa in praf si printre prea numeroase rasuflari

Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.

He wanted his life to be painted with the strongest colors he could find.

Here is the lesson," Barber said. "It is just as easy to bring death to man, and I've done so. It's harder to keep hold of life, harder still to maintain a grasp on health. Those are the tasks to which we must keep our minds.

Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

Love's not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It's real and vital, and it's necessary. Damn it.

It's a pretty big deal, not being dead, and I wanted to stay that way.

celebrating the rush

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

Give me passion. Flash. Give me joy. Flash. Give me youth and energy and innocence and beauty. Flash.

The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form.

No! Don't deal with this the way those dead people do. Deal with it the way a living person does.

My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people's lives.

But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

It is important to graps that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or saints. Others remain tragically divided and unproductive, but even they supply soul-energy to society; it is their strenuousness that purifies thought and prevents the bourgeois world from foundering under its own dead-weight; they are society's spiritual dynamos.

If we force ourselves to press on, a surprising thing happens. The fatigue gets worse, up to a point, then suddenly vanishes, and we feel better than before.

Man lives and evolves by 'eating' significance, as a child eats food. The deeper his sense of wonder, the wider his curiosity, the stronger his vitality becomes, and the more powerful his grip on his own existence.