Top 100 Quotes About Being Alive
#1. Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
Brit Marling
#2. What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.
Joe Hill
#3. Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
#4. I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
CeeLo Green
#5. Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
Charles Bowden
#6. Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.
Mary Engelbreit
#7. Without knowing it, I had identified a subtle but important part of the healing process. There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.
Neil Peart
#8. I belly up a laugh from way down deep where I'm always half laughing anyway because being alive - dude! - it's the greatest adventure in the world. What a ride it's been. Short but stupendous.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.
Loung Ung
#12. Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.
Sylvia Plath
#13. There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.
Matt Corby
#14. Part of the beauty and wonder of being alive is the opportunity to make your own choices and create your own meaning.
Armin Navabi
#15. Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank.
Richard Jeni
#16. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
Nathaniel Branden
#17. There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.
Robert Powell
#18. It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal
#19. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
#20. I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
John Fowles
#21. Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.
Robin Sharma
#22. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
Oprah Winfrey
#23. You are born and you will die ... but BEING ALIVE is your choice.
Mayank Sharma
#24. I felt, driving home, that for the first time in many years, maybe ever, I was coming truly alive, and here's the thing: the problem of being alive is that it makes you frightened.
Justin Cronin
#25. When i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
Sharon Creech
#26. Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.
Roberto Calasso
#27. Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
Stephen Dunn
#28. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
Sam Shepard
#29. But it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#30. We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers ... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.
Frank Delaney
#31. Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
Diane Ackerman
#32. This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent;
Lisel Mueller
#33. Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.
A. L. Kennedy
#34. The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
Richard Louv
#35. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. Burroughs
#36. I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive ... we want to feel the rapture of being alive
Joseph Campbell
#37. Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#39. Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
Pema Chodron
#40. 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
#41. Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.
Barbara De Angelis
#42. Many people look for the meaning of existence and for the meaning of living, when looking for the experiences of just being alive already gives meaning to existence.
Kcat Yarza
#43. I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
James Frey
#44. YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
Terry Pratchett
#45. 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
#46. As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I've had the chance to do something that's worth me being alive ... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.
Loung Ung
#47. To live in the moment is vastly different than living for it. To be truly present as life unfolds around one is to take fullest advantage of being alive.
April White
#48. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This ... hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?
Steven Erikson
#49. One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#50. If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.
Tara Brach
#51. I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
Sam Worthington
#52. I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
#53. There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
Jaco Van Dormael
#54. Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.
Jeff Bridges
#55. You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.
Nhat Hanh
#56. Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
Joyce Meyer
#57. You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive.
Paul Auster
#58. Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else.
Matt Groening
#59. It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.
Ruth A. Baer
#60. His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.
Cormac McCarthy
#62. Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
Arthur Lynch
#63. Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.
Arlene Ang
#64. Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
#65. Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.
Dolly Parton
#66. I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.
Shirley Manson
#67. Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.
Peggy Noonan
#68. I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
T.H. White
#69. The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.
Salman Rushdie
#70. Her throat is tight with fear. She is afraid of how this man, this stranger, has already changed the sensation of being alive. She is afraid he will slip away.
Maggie Shipstead
#71. But I think sometimes happiness just meant living. Being present. Being alive. Being surrounded by those you loved.
Paige Weaver
#72. Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.
Lil B
#73. Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured.
"Wonder what?"
"If being alive matters. If being dead might be a lot easier.
James Dashner
#74. To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
#75. This is the suffering of fear.
Fear is part of being alive.
Other people experience this too . . . I am not alone. May I be kind to myself . . . may I give myself the compassion I need.
Tara Brach
#76. I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
John Lydon
#77. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.
William Wharton
#78. What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
John Green
#79. What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
#80. Why does being alive have to mean always losing, always losing everything all the time? You
James Hannaham
#81. We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
Mary McDonnell
#83. There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many thingsm full stop.
Glen Duncan
#84. He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.
Franz Kafka
#85. Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
Richard Saunders
#86. I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it ... seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
Duane Allman
#87. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
Maxine Greene
#88. One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
Sebastian Faulks
#89. The sudden pounding in her chest, the trembling of her hands, the inflation of her lungs. It was exactly like being alive. It was reanimating the dead.
Abbie Chandler
#90. The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,
Douglas Adams
#91. What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.
Paul Pearsall
#92. The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure.
Tahereh Mafi
#93. My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world ... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive ... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!
Kristan Higgins
#94. When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.
Joel Osteen
#96. I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#97. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.
Daphne Zuniga
#98. Being alive was easy. Living, on the other hand ... well, that was a little harder.
Belle Aurora
#99. Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.
Stewart Butterfield
#100. I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.
Rory McCann
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