The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L’instinct de survie – Prouve qu’on est en vie.)

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

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

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

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at one with” and “separate from” the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as “learning to survive”...

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic...

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

Chicken Alive

If it doesn’t sweat, jiggle, or pant, it’s not alive.

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

What’s done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future. And we’re wasting time, when already we’ve wasted enough. We’ve got everything ahead, waiting for us. “Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge.

I like you. It’s pretty nice you’re not dead.

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

Ingrid’s skin was the smoothest texture, so pale that it was transparent. I could see the blue veins that ran down her arms, and they made her seem fragile somehow. the way Eric Daniels, my first boyfriend, seemed fragile when I laid my head on his chest and heart his heart beating and thought, Oh....

…the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world…

…don’t settle for pap – our thoughts wander through eternity – experience the wonder of being alive…

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don’t need to act to feel myself alive.

If you think we’re waxworks,” he said, “you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren’t made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!””Contrariwise,” added the one marked ‘DEE’, “if you think we’re alive, you ought to speak.

We openthe halvesof a miracle,and a clotting of acidsbrimsinto the starrydivisions:creation’soriginal juices,irreducible, changeless,alive:so the freshness lives on

I’m always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can’t see anything…the spell of ignorance

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything hurt. It meant she was alive.

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.

I am happy to be alive.

You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters.

It was a vision of the one thing that we both hoped someday would be…the warmth of our bodies next to each other’s, reflected in sunset of our secret place… We longed for it to be like this, each and every evening… Dancing in the night, playing hide-and-seek in the day, the beauty of our...

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward

I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.

These days I find that I am happy enough in the same way that I am warm enough – the goal isn’t bliss or even comfort in some cases. The goal is to feel alive.

He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying ‘Am,’...

My hands will get dirty holding your rose-like heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive.

Just for the simple fact that you are alive to witness a new day, makes your life amazingly great. With the body, mind, and soul alive and in positive state, all things will surely remain possible, and opportunities will continue to be endless.

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It’s also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves.

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 the chains he’d bound about it.

I’m very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

There’s not a person alive who is ugly. Now dead people, they disgust me.

I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.

It’s better to get a rosebud while you’re alive than a whole bouquet after you’re dead.

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.

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

My love was green—new and alive. Her love was red—full stop. Occasionally and cautiously we’d meet in the middle at yellow.

Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions respectively.

Widowed were not those alive, but those who were dead.

That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.