alive quotes

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they werethe onlyone alive, and quite a number fondly believe that their wish has been granted.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  The Dyer's Hand,'Writing'.

What I like about Clive Is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said For being dead.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Biography for Beginners,'Clive'.

Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness, Half dead and half alive.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  'Death in Leamington', first published in the London Mercury.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:20^2.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:18.

The world was beforethecreationand at anend beforeit had a beginning; and thus was I dead before I was alive. Though my grave be England, my dying place was Paradise, and Eve miscarried of me before she conceived of Cain.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 59.

It doesnot matter that Dickens's world isnot life-like; it is alive.

- Lord (Edward Christian) David Gascoyne Cecil
  Early Victorian Novelists.

Des mots sont arrache  s vivants a'   la langue de  funte. Words are taken alive from a defunct language.

- He  le'  ne Cixous
  La.

Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  The Latest Decalogue.

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.

- Richard Dawkins
  The Blind Watchmaker, ch.1.

Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.

- Gavin Buchanan Ewart
  'Office Friendships'.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boyand every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Private Willis's song, Iolanthe, act 2.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

-Joseph Heller
  OfYossarian. Catch-22, ch.3.

Se ha hecho para los vivos y no para los muertos el porque   metaf|sico y las reflexiones sobre la vida y la muerte, pero no les hace falta aclarar todo el misterio, les hace falta distraerse y son‹  ar en aclararlo. Metaphysical questions and reflections on lifeand death were created for people alive and not for the dead. However, they do not have to solve all mystery; it is enough for them to create some distraction and to dream that they clarify.

- Felisberto Herna n dez
  Libro sin tapas,'La piedra filosofal' ('The Philosopher's Stone').

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

-Walter Map
c.1181  On the refusal of many of his contemporaries to believe that his Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum could have been composed by a modern writer. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.

Non est vivere, sed valere vita est. Life is not just to be alive, but to be well.

-Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
Epigrams, bk.6, no.70.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.