Quotes About Being Lucky To Be Alive

#1. People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.

Mitt Romney

#3. Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer

#4. I don't like grocery shopping. It's the same thing over and over every week. I'd like to make enough money, one day, that someone else would do it for me. Do you have to be rich for that?

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life ... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Rebecca West

#6. I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Fred Hollows

#7. All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Siegfried Sassoon

#8. 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

#9. My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.

Maximilian Kolbe

#10. A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever landed here.

Barbara Kingsolver