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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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
- Individuals
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- Nov 07, 2020