Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds. Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.
What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.
Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.
I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.
It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.
The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.
We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.
But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?. . . Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
No one, and nothing, will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive.
I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.