Quotes of: Alive Keyword

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Diggers

Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.

Dust

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

East of Eden

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Engleby

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Eleanor & Park

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

El doctor Zhivago

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Flowers in the Attic

Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.

Falling From Grace

Your pain made you strong. It made you passionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Faking It

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

The Bookshop Book

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

Butterflies in November

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

R. A. Salvatore

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?

The Ask and the Answer

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen.

How to Make Peace