#alive

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. ↗

— Walker Percy

#alive #another #dead #few #friendly

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#ashamed #feel #i #i feel #truth

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not. ↗

— Marty Robbins

#day #every #every day #good #good day

I'm alive. That's a good thing. ↗

— Will Shields

#alive #good #good thing #i #thing

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. ↗

— John French Sloan

#dead #knock #since #speak #them

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ancestral #another #find #form #however

I may be alive now, but in a series of moments I won’t be. And let it be said about me: He didn’t waste his time talking to conch shells, but he did listen to what they had to say about the ocean. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #wisdom #death

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. ↗

— Albert Camus

#alive #life #sleep #life

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#live-life #life

Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world...They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life. ↗

— John Connolly

#books #imagination #life #reading #stories