In this one life, this one life that you have to live, you must embrace every moment that creeps into your existence. You must feel every possible emotion to realize you’re really alive, you’re really...

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.

Life is a planetary level phenomenon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable—the rhetoric of the...

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.not cigarettes,they tell us,but a place to burn.or we’re told:space and a place to flymight be thesame.the dead don’t need me.nor do...

I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no...

I replaced my wife with an empty chair, so I wouldn’t be poisoned at dinner. And I’m still alive, so I’d say it was a genius tactical strategy.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Passion in life…is life. It’s contagious. Get naked and roll around in it. People who enjoy living have it all figured out. They are passionate, driven, alive, and they are real.

Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward

It’s remarkable, being alive.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

A voice saying that other word an alive thing must learn, that other word as necessary to living as taking in fuel and making of it movement, music, leaves, roots, dimetrodon spikes, dancing, libraries, children:Yes!...

We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock...

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

When I wake up each morning, I praise the Lord for the gift of being alive.

beach bunnies”: you don’t have to think about things or even talk when you’re on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive.

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren’t alive. Thankful that I’m alive!

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he’d be a drama critic.

Extinction is established when people only choose to exist without living

I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans not named Norman is underestimated in history, and I fear neither woman nor...

I’ll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I’ll be able to sing as long as I’m alive.

As his people positioned themselves in and around the pass, Arin though that he might have misunderstood the Valorian addiction to war. He had assumed it was spurred by greed. By a savage sense of...

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

We haven’t remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Most accounts of mystical experiences… insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be “living” or alive, as in “living God.” But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize?...

I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I...

He’s dead. I don’t celebrate who he was, but who he isn’t. He isn’t alive, and that is a great reason to party.

I feel like I’m going to get in a fight one day about the validity of falling in love so fast. Not a heated one because why would I give a shit if some other...

I am happy to be alive.

Breathe as long as the sky is alive

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings…but there’s something dead about it,...

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

But it’s fair to say that the war’s [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to...

If you’re reading this…Congratulations, you’re alive.If that’s not something to smile about,then I don’t know what is.

Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing “alive and kicking” dreams.

Oliver Stone’s strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

I must be alive,” Gawain said hoarsely. “Dead doesn’t hurt this much.

Be happy you are alive and be good.

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

If a book is not alive in the writer’s mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that’s why we’re alive.