Louis Sachar Quotes

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

I write about living, not dying.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Life is stronger than death.

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

I live, which is the main point.