Alive Quotes - Page 10

• To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Intellectual, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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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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• We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

  Tian Dayton

  Forgiveness, Wise, Hurt

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• Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

  Crane Wilbur

  Art, Creativity, Hands

  "Fictional character: Prof. Henry Jarrod". "House of Wax", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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 character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

  Christopher Reeve

  Character, Interesting, Fiction

  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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• There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

  Guy Endore

  Men, Enemy, World

  "Fictional character: Professor Zelin". "Mark of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

  Umberto Eco

  Betrayal, Hate, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.

  John Coplans

  Art, Thinking, Views

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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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• If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.

  Aaron Gillespie

  Mom, Morning, Hate

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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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• Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Soul, Matter

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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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• For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

  Christian Lacroix

  Jobs, Skills, Comfort

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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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• The people who excel in any field are people who realize that the moment is there to be seized-that there are opportunities at every turn. They are more alive to the moment.

  Charles Faulkner

  Opportunity, People, Fields

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• Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, War, Live Life

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.141, Anchor

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Consciousness, Awareness

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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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