- Nov 07, 2020
Alive Quotes
On feeling alive—in body, in work, and in the natural world.
This page collects quotes about what it means to feel alive—seeing trees as living beings, noting how certain old systems remain active long after they should have faded, and comparing the energy of fieldwork to a quieter newsroom. See our feel quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy... everything has a place. It's kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every morning, when I'm really, really tired... when I'm dead tired is when I feel most alive.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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- Nov 07, 2020