(559 quotes found)
“What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.”
Hugh Kingsmill
“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.”
William Barclay
“There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.”
Paul Bryant
“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice”
Clarence Darrow
“Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave”
Bertrand Russell
“Stop worrying / nobody gets out of this world alive.”
Clive James
“The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive”
George Allen
“Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.”
Warren Miller
