Alive Quotes - Page 7

• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Rain, Air

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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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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• Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Past

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

  Brother Theodore

  Dying, Young

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• But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Dream, Orange Trees, Order

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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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• The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.

  Ari Berk

  Pain, Long, Joy

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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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• I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Sorority, Cheerleader

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• Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

  Tablo

  Mean, Breathing

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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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• The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Song, Years

  "The Sound of Music" (song) (1959)

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• Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Beautiful, Poetry

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.645, Stanford University Press

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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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• I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

  Augusten Burroughs

  San Francisco, Worry, Age

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

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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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