"I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive."
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"Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death."
"If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?"
"So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information."
"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive"
"As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie."
"Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive."
"It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive."
"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
"It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share."
"Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive."
"We cannot be normal and alive at the same time."
"Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love."
"You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?"
"Words are animals, alive with a will of their own"
"It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out."
"Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us."
"The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime."
"The people who excel in any field are people who realize that the moment is there to be seized-that there are opportunities at every turn. They are more alive to the moment."
"I work to stay alive."