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.

Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction; you dreams will be alive and grow into success!

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ...

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Don’t you recognize me, Mary? It’s your good friend Allie the Outcast – although it looks like you’re the one who’s the out-cast now.” Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. “Now that...

So they can feel alive,” Scatty said.

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

I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I’ve seen the Holocaust...

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

All the love of the high, wild places, all the amazing joy in being alive sounded in his voice

I’m alive. This might be the first time I’ve ever really been alive in my whole fucking miserable life. This moment is what causes wars to start. The only books worth reading have been written...