Alive Quotes - Page 23

• Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Grateful, Blessing, Opportunity

  Dr. Bernie Siegel (2009). “365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love”, p.26, New World Library

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• To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Hunger

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• If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

  Alice Oswald

  Real, Animal, Light

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• But we live in an age, ladies and gentlemen, where we are keeping morons alive in our gene pools by putting warnings on items that should not require warnings. The hotel I am staying in has a hair dryer, on the cord of the hair dryer there is a warning and this is what it says: “Warning! Do not use in shower!” Ladies and gentlemen if you have a friend who wants to use their hair dryer in the shower, you let them.

  Wil Anderson

  Hair, Gentleman, Age

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• We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Way, Remember, Ends

  Nova Ren Suma (2015). “The Walls Around Us”, p.11, Algonquin Books

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• You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.

  Mira Grant

  Military, People, Training

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• A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Fool, Philosopher, Moral

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• I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543

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• Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, Luxury, Interesting

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• When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

  Henry James

  Forget, Ignorance Is Bliss, Knows

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• I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

  Eric Braeden

  Loyalty, Thinking, Sake

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• And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Wonder

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• And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Reading, Humanity

  Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

  Donald Miller

  Moving, Becoming, Becoming Something

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.193, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Mean, Earth, Extinction

  "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

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• If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

  Claude Cahun

  Hate, War, Quality

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• As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Long, Goal

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Jan 17, 2017

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• If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.

  David Foster Wallace

  Philosophical, Mean, Character

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Yellow, Different

  "Joan Didion's Yellow Corvette". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

  John Maus

  Laughing, Rejection, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

  Steve Reich

  Kicking, Pieces, Great Music

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hard Times, Weight Problems, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
  Georgius Secundus was then alive,--
  Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Drones, Fifty, Hundred

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1862). “Songs in Many Keys”, p.167

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