Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. . . . It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having. . . if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.
Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.
Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.