Alive Quotes - Page 6

• The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Animal, Years

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.

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• If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

  Larry McMurtry

  Warrior, Long, Ifs

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• Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

  Henry Selick

  Horse, Believe, Kids

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• Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, dont wait until later to live the way you were created. God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Dont sleep on that. Lastly, rise above the low expectations people have.

  Trip Lee

  Sleep, People, Expectations

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• Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

  Laurence Olivier

  Ideas, New Ideas

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• I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Progress, Satisfaction

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• I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Fate, Overcoming

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• I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

  Alberta Hunter

  Men, Thinking, Who I Am

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• As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Vocabulary, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

  Richard Crossman

  Europe, Preoccupation, Palestine

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• Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Real, Believe, Objectivity

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Wise, People, Sick

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• 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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• We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Healthy, Good Times

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

  Craig Clevenger

  Falling In Love, Forever, Moments

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• When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.

  Blake Butler

  Wall, Book, Kids

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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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• I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

  Jonathan Evison

  Struggle, Artist, Love Is

  "Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of West of Here". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 31, 2011.

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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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• Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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• If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

  Robert E. Murray

  Trying, Slumber, Sin

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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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