Alive Quotes - Page 36

• Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

  Fauja Singh

  Running, Tragedy, Used

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• People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  War, Stress, Thinking

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• What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

  Patch Adams

  War, Mean, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

  Dawn French

  Moss, Would Be, Paint

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• While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Ghost, Stills

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.240, Random House

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• Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

  Arthur Miller

  Artist, Temptation, Trying

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• If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Annoying, Ifs

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• You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Heart, People, Mind

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• When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

  Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Tears

  "Can't work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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• My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

  Mary Martin

  Waiting, Emptiness, Possibility

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• We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

  Lewis Hyde

  Degrees, Moved

  Lewis Hyde (2006). “The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

  William C. Brown

  Order, Firsts, Spirit

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• I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Struggle, Men, Melancholy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Irony, Priceless

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Males, Naked

  "Howard Smith: The counter-cultural correspondent's interviews from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to Raquel Welch". New York radio show, www.independent.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

  Ryan Stiles

  Breathing, Staying Alive, Staying

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Might, Awe, Wells

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• I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  "Actress Lauren Bacall reflects on life (w/ audio)". Interview With Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. March 11, 2009.

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• The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

  Marilyn Manson

  Strong, Records, Growing

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• It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

  Dennis Prager

  Drug, Physicians, Doe

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Needs, Way, Messages

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• The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

  Ariel Pink

  Grateful, Feel Good, Forever

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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