Best Alive Quotes

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

I realize that most of us live on the skin – on the surface – without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces… never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That’s the beauty of being alive… We can always start all over again. Enjoy God’s amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.

I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

I’m a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I’m introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

No poetic phantasybut a biological reality,a fact: I am an entitylike bird, insect, plantor sea-plant cell;I live; I am alive.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts – a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He’d wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. … Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Every morning I wake up with the newsof bloodshed.I feel my body,desperate to know whetherI’m still alive.

There’s no battered woman alive who didn’t know in advance that the man was bad.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself