#alive

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#been #believe #ever #fondly #granted

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#been #books #connected #ever #had

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. ↗

— Mary Quant

#being #fashion #frivolous #part #today

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. ↗

— Irving Ravetch

#dogs #everybody #gets #happens #horses

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

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour. ↗

— Peter Wright

#alive #been #colour #effect #felt

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#always #around #come #dimension #feeling

The best date I’ve ever been on was March 5th, 1982, the year I was born. For as long as I live, I’ll never forget that date.
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— Jarod Kintz

#birth #birthday #born #date #dating

When we allow the walls around our hearts to become rigid, and stay that way, we assign ourselves a slow death. Like the very air and water that flows through our physical body to sustain it, love must flow through our heart to keep it supple, and to keep us truly alive. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#flow-of-love #heart #love #love-sustains #supple

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

— Albert Camus

#alive #life #sleep #life