Alive Quotes - Page 10

• One of the sadder things, I think,
  Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
  Presents and parties disappear,
  The cards grow fewer year by year,
  Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
  How many care we're still alive?

  Philip Larkin

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Men, Done

  Alice Cary (1866). “Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns”, p.227

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• I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

  William Howard Taft

  America, Attention, Matter

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

  Benedetto Croce

  Men, History, Satisfied

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Boys

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• No poetic phantasy
  but a biological reality,
  a fact: I am an entity
  like bird, insect, plant
  or sea-plant cell;
  I live; I am alive.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Reality, Cells

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.

  Chet Atkins

  Country, Song, Fall

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• After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

  Betty Carter

  Forever, Littles, Singers

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• The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

  Paris Reidhead

  Men, Ends, Dies

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• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

  Alfred de Musset

  Poet, Dormant, Young

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• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  Mick Rock

  Miracle, Live For Today, Reeds

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• Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

  Ralph Marston

  Care

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• History
  Coming too close
  Is monstrous, like a doll
  That is alive and bigger than the child
  Who tries to hold it.

  Babette Deutsch

  Children, History, Trying

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.

  Ariel Pink

  Space, Size, Density

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

  Charles Lloyd

  Age, Kicking, Springtime

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last.

  Tracy McMillan

  Fun, People, Riding

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• This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

  Sebastian Faulks

  People, Conscious

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Expectations, Victory

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, World, Kind

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• Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

  Colum McCann

  Fiction, Wonderful, Wave

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• I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Garden, Energy, Fruit

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