Best alive & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.”

Ifs Persons Said Stills Ends Would Be Found Alive Boring Investigation Resumes Boring Person

Author:Jodie Foster

“The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.”

Men Ends Life Is Parent Alive Sacrifice Superiors Disgrace Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.”

Ifs Men Should Wells Ends Lasts Left Alive Epitaph Tombstone

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...”

World Children Made Ends Alive Made It End Of The World

Author:Ben Harper

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”

People Ifs Want Feels Persons Made Ends Sometimes Happens Past Hate Alive Identity Racism Decided Structure Constant Sexism Atonement

Author:Chris Abani

“Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.”

World Looks Ends Dies Realizing Answers Alive Insane Apocalypse End Of The World

Author:Jess Walter

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.”

Ifs Way Humans Ends Facts Faces Religious Christianity Alive Atheism Dying Depends Definitions Positive Atheism Noble Phenomenon Inadequate Theism Rigor Conceiving Rigor Mortis

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.”

“Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.”

People Ends Care Love Is Practice Alive Please Right Now Capable Take Care Reaching

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.”

Mean Ends Order Heaven Alive Have Faith

Author:Richard Rohr

“If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Past Alive

Book:Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

“We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.”

Ifs World May Ends God Spirit Hell Alive Trouble Journey Rocks Danger Keys Mountain Moved Storm Rage Shakes Refuge Tempest Forsake Protector Rest In Peace One Friend

Author:Reginald Heber

“This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.”

World Art Ends Joy Evil Natural Existence Alive Pure Illness Disaster Instant Injury Sheer Bargains Splendor Involuntary Natural Disaster Sheer Joy Pure Evil

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.”

Want Writing Ideas Ends Character Might My Own Alive Personality No Idea

Book:Akira Kurosawa: Interviews

Source: Akira Kurosawa: Interviews

“I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.”

Want Feels Ends Moments Dream Beautiful Guy Certain Fall Left Forget Alive Mystery Danger Intense Beautiful Things Percentages Forget It Let Down Jake Chinatown

Author:David Lynch

“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.”

Ends Past Sex Half Five Alive Wife Wonderful Berserk

Author:Gavin Ewart

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”

Ifs Should Humans Book Ends Hard Enough Body Kids Earth Goal Rooms Secret Behinds Alive Wall Should Have Instance Primaries Code Bedroom Revealing Printed Life Goal

Author:Blake Butler

“We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.”

Way Stills Ends Remember Alive

Book:The Walls Around Us

Source: The Walls Around Us

“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”

Love Mind Heart May Ends Done Hands Belief Alive Mines Shadow Settling Pale Console Lingering

Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

Mind Humans Kind Book Ends States Reason Facts Together Humanity Reading Felt Alive Written Particular Products Add Treasure Maps Human Mind Staying Alive Great Book Reason To Stay

Book:Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.”

Men Ends Dies Alive Fundamentalist

Author:Paris Reidhead

“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Ends Hard Enough Felt Term Realizing Loses Levels Laughing Hell Alive Safe Aspect Okay Tragedy The End Of The Day Attachment Freak Brutal Liberating Control Freak

Author:Daniele Bolelli

“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.”

“I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.”

Ifs Giving Believe Ends Dream Fall House Alive Achieve Car Tvs Careful Selling Prize Slips American Dream Consumerism Consolation Overconsumption Consolation Prize Selling Yourself

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.”

Thinking Ends Turns Steps Alive Projects Harder Horizon Twists Steps Forward Twists And Turns

Author:Ayana Mathis

“Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.”

Wells Heart Stills Ends Stories Might Today Able Three Wish Alive Months Died Global Warming Cosmos Printed Roger Live For Today Three Months Heart Attack Scams Silliness

Author:John Coleman

“Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.”

May Said Soul Ends Whole Moments Body Eye Age Pain Suffering Millions Hell Alive Possibility Smart Ears Extremes Mythology Intense Instant Torment Trembling Duration Fainting Intermission

Author:John Wesley

“There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?”

Men Inspirational Feels May Ends Shows Feelings Might Motivational Suffering Answers Animal Alive Dog Spring Tables Nerves Nails Incapable Veins Barbarians

Author:Voltaire

“Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.”

Thinking Humans Kind Ends Whole Helping Body School Order Term Cities Pieces Alive Comfortable Concepts Structure Wholeness Human Body Literal Whole Family Dubious Sated

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.”

Ifs Knows Heart Long Soul Ends Stories Turns Next Alive Pages Fingers Stores Awful Chapters Heart And Soul Fingers Crossed

Author:Darren Shan

“While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.”

Ends Play Chance Alive Risk Willing Regret Safe Tempting

Author:Kelsey Grammer

“The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.”

Ends Strong Records Alive Growing Seeing

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I enjoy it and just smile through it. There are days where you're just pulling your hair out, but, at the end of the day, we are the luckiest people alive, doing what we do and loving our job as much as we do. Things don't get that much better.”

People Ends Jobs Enjoy Alive Hair The End Of The Day Pulling Just Smile

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.”

People Ifs World Needs Real Ends Alive Example Desperate The End Of The Day Real World Starving Thirsty

Author:Eric Kripke

“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Mean Said Ends Sometimes Body Spirit Term Walks Alive Risk He Man Broken Victory Survival Prison Sentences Destroyed Gates Jail Survived Cradle Small Victories

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.”

“It felt like an indulgence. Going back was painful, but, at the same time, it was nice to live with them again for a few pages. I got to live with my brother again for the entire book. Of course as I'm writing the book, I'm getting closer and closer to the end and I know what that means. I knew exactly where I was heading. It was really difficult, but it was nice to make them come alive for those scenes. It was good.”

Knows Writing Mean Book Ends Courses Felt Difficult Nice Alive Brother Scene Pages Painful My Brother Indulgence Headings

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.”

Kind Ends Reason Alive Capacity Finals Exam Capacity To Love Final Exams

Author:Marci Shimoff

“It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.”

Ends Action Desire Alive Seeds

Author:Rod Stryker

“Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive.”

Has Beens Ends Done Left Stuff Audience Alive Tvs Frank Devoted Festivals Accolades Memento Superlatives

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Stills Ends Facts Home Given Silence Alive Car Driven Thirty Fifty Policemen Kidnapped

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“There is an old Indian saying, "When legends die, dreams end. When dreams end, there is no more greatness." Leaders like Walt Disney inspire their organizations to keep their legends and stories alive.”

Ends Stories Dream Dies Leader Alive Greatness Inspire Organization Indian Legends Walt

Author:Bill Capodagli

“When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.”

Thinking Knows Mean Doe Ends Dies Turns Left Grief Behinds Alive One Thing Poet Poetry Is Left Behind Affront

Author:Allison Joseph

“I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Years Heart I Can Book Ends Enough Play Reading Process Pleasure Know How Alive Ten Research Bases Work Out Driven Spontaneous Groove Mazes Be Spontaneous

Author:Annie Baker

“Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.”

Thinking Ends Shows Might Happens Actors Stuff Alive Tvs Careful Shooting Be Careful Tv Shows Stimulus Neat

Author:Thomas Jane

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”

Alive Quotes

Related topics

Alive Quotes