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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.

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

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

Quotes by Adrienne Rich

Being Quotes

When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my youth, and that naturally goes away with time. But the challenge of an actor is to retain the...

Quotes by Aditya Roy Kapur

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive...

Quotes by Adeo Ressi

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

Quotes by Adam Silvera

Feel Quotes

The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.

Quotes by Adam F. Goldberg

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

Quotes by Adam Clymer

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

Quotes by Adam Ant

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

Quotes by Ad-Rock

Life Quotes

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get...

Quotes by Action Bronson

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Quotes by Aaron Copland

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Quotes by Ziggy Marley

I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

Quotes by Yitzhak Shamir

Like Quotes

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

Frequently Asked Questions

What different reflections on being "alive" show up here?
This mix covers seeing trees as living beings, a personal opinion on gender discrimination, a boast about pitching strength, and a journalist's contrast between a lively field and a quiet newsroom.
Is there a quote about trees being alive?
Yes: "I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are."
Does a quote share an opinion about "the old boys' network" being alive?
Yes - presented as that speaker's own view on discrimination, not a neutral finding: "Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men."
Is there a quote about being the hardest-throwing pitcher alive?
Yes: "Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood."
Where can I find more quotes about life and being?
For more, see our Life and Being quotes pages.

For related reflections, browse our life and being quotes.