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“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

Pain Alive Ordinary Mood Mysterious

Book:Les Fleurs Du Mal

Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”

“I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!”

Knows Men Moving Alive Ordinary Twenties Thee Disgusting Familiarity Dead Man Tombstone Truism I Am Alive Lecturing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.”

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.”

Men Facts Alive Genius Ordinary Nerves Superstitious Ordinary Man

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!”

Want Humans Littles Long Heaven Voice Alive Cry Ordinary Warm Enthusiasm Thrilling Hallelujah I'm Alive

Author:John Osborne

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Trying Enough Wanted Simple Morning Alive Imagine Ordinary Shocking

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because it’s you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.”

People Persons Seems Alive Ordinary Catastrophe Ordinary People Troublesome

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.”

Giving Novel Alive Reader Demand Ordinary Prepared Prose

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

People World Feels Children Remember Suffering Alive Worst Walking Ordinary Careful Monsters Naked Paradox Buried Shells Only Time Protective Armour Adaptive Walking Dead

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.”

Men Years Two Moments Found Teacher Alive Students Promise Ordinary Hundred Men And Women Soldier Thirty Tonight Two Years Farmers Nurse 4th Of July Ordinary Man Jeopardy Janitor

Author:Barack Obama

“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.”

Spiritual Turns Alive Awareness Planets Becoming Ordinary Connections Miracle Appreciation Realization Awake Dimensions Ordinary Life Life Appreciation Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Dan Wakefield

“Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.”