Quotes and Sayings About Alive
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
-- Aaron Copland -
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
-- Abbi Glines -
For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
-- Abdullah OcalanSource : Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.
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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
-- Abe Burrows -
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
-- Abraham Verghese -
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
-- Adam Johnson -
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
-- Adele Faber -
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
-- Adolfo Bioy CasaresSource : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
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Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.
-- Afeni Shakur -
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
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The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
-- Al Gore -
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
-- Al Pacino -
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
-- Alain de Botton -
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Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
-- Alan Bullock -
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
-- Alan Watts -
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
-- Alan Watts -
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
-- Alasdair MacIntyreSource : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black
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He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
-- Albert Camus -
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
-- Albert Camus -
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
-- Albert Ellis -
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
-- Alberto MoraviaSource : Alberto Moravia (2011). “The Woman of Rome”, p.202, Steerforth
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
-- Aldous Huxley