I Am Alive Quotes

I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

We may writhe in agony from pain Or laugh out loud when we find happiness As long as we're alive tomorrow will come we become stronger and keep on living We were born to live

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.

Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

If you kill me, I promise you - you will never take me alive.

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

Love is a special way of being alive.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.