Top 100 To 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. Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.
Scott Eastwood
#4. 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
#5. Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#6. 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
#7. It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Nina Simone
#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. 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
#12. When you have faith in something, it's your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Katherine Dunham
#13. Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Erwin McManus
#14. 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
#15. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.
Kate Grenville
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
E.B. White
#25. 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
#27. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
#28. I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
Eve Ensler
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Hurting is feeling and feeling is living and isn't it good to be alive?
Amy Harmon
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.
Markus Heitz
#38. It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
Joe Strummer
#39. 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
#41. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
Rachel Kushner
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
Joanna Lumley
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.
Deb Caletti
#52. 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
#53. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.
Maureen Johnson
#62. But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
L. Frank Baum
#63. I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
Werner Herzog
#64. 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
#65. But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.
Iain Thomas
#66. I let the sun hit me. The sun's some kind of gift. Another day we're all alive. I wish she could understand. I'm just happy to be alive.
Jami Attenberg
#67. I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant
#68. You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
Ned Vizzini
#69. Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.
Paul Baribeau
#70. The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.
Michael Gira
#71. My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.
David Letterman
#73. To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
Yann Martel
#74. 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.
John Martel
#75. I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.
George Foreman
#76. Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#77. World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
Nick Nolte
#78. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
Jon Krakauer
#79. 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
#82. Perhaps the earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive
Pablo Neruda
#83. 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
#84. It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The
James Gleick
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive.
If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
Raymond Chandler
#89. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.
P. J. O'Rourke
#90. I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.
David Cronenberg
#91. We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we're never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything
Caroline Kepnes
#92. I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.
Ronaldinho
#93. I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.
Augusten Burroughs
#94. Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
Judy Blume
#95. Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.
Jean Baker Miller
#96. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,
when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.
Kate Chopin
#97. She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.
William Trevor
#99. As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.
J.A. Konrath
#100. For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
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