Top 100 Be Alive Quotes
#1. If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
Drew Barrymore
#2. How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
Paul Claudel
#3. Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#4. If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.
Hod Lipson
#5. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Nina Simone
#8. In a perfect
world I would be taller, you would be alive,
and chickens could cross the road without
being the subject of a joke.
Suzanne Wrightt
#9. To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
Gerald May
#10. To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#11. I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
Rodney King
#12. What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.
Ruben Papian
#13. Ric stared up at the lion siblings. How Lock hadn't killed them already, he didn't know. If nothing else, Ric would have had them ... managed by now. They'd be alive, but in Siberia.
Shelly Laurenston
#14. All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Ali Smith
#15. What if I was wrong? What if there was no other side. What if, in all the eons of eternity, this was the one and only time that I would be alive. How would I live my life if that were the case?
Allen Eskens
#16. When you have faith in something, it's your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Katherine Dunham
#17. Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Erwin McManus
#18. Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.
Kevin Brockmeier
#19. The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.
George Leonard
#20. Be alive, be wide awake, be anything but boring.
Shey Stahl
#23. How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.
Terry Goodkind
#24. When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."
Etgar Keret
#25. My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?
Tom Robbins
#26. XXXVII. If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb. If I couldn't thank you, Being just asleep, You will know I'm trying With my granite lip!
Emily Dickinson
#27. The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.
Candice Millard
#28. But what Desmond didn't tell you is
by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.
Darren Shan
#29. All those moments between those seconds. Timeless. Their love would always be alive; a living, beating heart, but just caught in a moment. Caught in their time. Maybe that's all they were. Just a time in love. Just a time in an affair.
Stylo Fantome
#30. How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.
Kate Grenville
#31. To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.
Hannah
#32. Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.
This is what it means to be alive.
John Barrowman
#33. From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
E.B. White
#34. Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?'
Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.
Lisa Graff
#36. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
#37. I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
Eve Ensler
#38. The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.
John Shelby Spong
#39. Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
D.T. Suzuki
#40. You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.
Ronald Rolheiser
#41. Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?
Margaret Atwood
#42. Hurting is feeling and feeling is living and isn't it good to be alive?
Amy Harmon
#43. You can't worry about what other people think you should do. The only way you'll ever be happy or make a real difference is by pursuing the things that motivate you and make you excited to be alive. Life is too short to waste years of it being miserable or asking 'What if?
Dana Bate
#44. If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
Arlen Specter
#45. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.
Tim Kreider
#46. A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
G.K. Chesterton
#47. The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.
Ken Liu
#48. I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.
Khaled Hosseini
#49. The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.
Markus Heitz
#50. If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive
Aliko Dangote
#51. It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
Joe Strummer
#52. If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
#53. I see the sky as beautiful,
Regardless of its shine
Because I wake each day grateful,
That I get another chance to be alive.
Nikki Rowe
#55. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
Rachel Kushner
#56. I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.
Ed Figueroa
#57. We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.
Joseph O'Connor
#58. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Miguel Ruiz
#59. If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
Joanna Lumley
#60. If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.
Bob Costas
#61. We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive ... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. If I couldn't play, I wouldn't be alive.
Frank Iero
#63. For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
George Lucas
#65. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it
is a wonder beyond words.
Joanna Macy
#66. He saw Krampus grinning at him and knew then that the Yule Lord was right, he could no more quit music than breathing, and while he needed air to live, he needed music to truly be alive.
Brom
#67. I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
Rita Rudner
#68. If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.
Emily Dickinson
#69. I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
Scott Stossel
#70. Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
Garrison Keillor
#71. It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
Wallace Stevens
#72. Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.
Deb Caletti
#74. What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#75. Better be alive and wrong than dead and right. He had no choice but to be suspicious.
Tiffany Snow
#76. When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#78. But we ourselves would not be alive if some innocent Being had not first seen us. That was the act that planted the seed of the whole universe, and it was an act of love. You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#79. What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
...
"You help him find something that makes him feel that he still wants to be alive. Only thing to do.
Alice Hoffman
#81. Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
Gary Krist
#82. The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.
Wendell Berry
#83. When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive: every morning you wake with triumph. (p. 91)
Graham Greene
#84. I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.
Kevin Powers
#85. As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley
#86. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.
Maureen Johnson
#87. But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
L. Frank Baum
#88. I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
Werner Herzog
#89. She liked soot, and heat, and grime, and she was beginning to realize, if she didn't actually like her aloneness, she was at least comforted by it. She should be grateful; she knew, she knew. She should be thrilled just to be alive. So why was it she preferred to expect nothing?
Alice Hoffman
#90. To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
Julian Assange
#91. Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.
Craig Venter
#94. Perhaps the earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive
Pablo Neruda
#95. This is who you are, I thought, and my eyes were wet with love for myself and my lovers and for the world. How wonderful and strange it is to be alive! How uneven we are, and how lucky, in our delirious specificity and holy broken forms.
Justin Taylor
#96. It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The
James Gleick
#97. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#98. Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?
Marjorie Agosin
#99. You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.
Katharine Hepburn
#100. There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
Will Cotton
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