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A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit ... — Kurt Vonnegut

She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive. — Shirley Jackson

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. — Muriel Barbery

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead. — Joe Strummer

Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world. — Siri Hustvedt

That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Being alive can kill you. It can make you completely irrational. — Sarah Bredeman

Love is a special way of being alive. — Thomas Merton

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage. — Emily Haines

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

You aren't alive if you aren't in need. — Henry Cloud

What else have you gained?'
'The joy of being alive. I know that I'm here, and that everything is a miracle, a revelation. — Paulo Coelho

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We're all seeking ... the rapture of being alive. — Joseph Campbell

Being a girl in this world means being afraid. That fear'll keep you safe. It'll keep you alive. — Meredith Russo

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive. — Anne Lamott

The greatest treasure is the act of being alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. — Michael Jackson

I've been off drugs and booze since I almost killed myself on speed two weeks ago. But my gratitude for being alive can't last for ever. — Johnny Dark

Life's not just about being alive, but being well. — Martial

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift — Jon Pall Sigmarsson

I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive. — Knut Hamsun

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive. — Daphne Zuniga

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year. — Randy Bachman

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. — Jaggi Vasudev

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities. — Arthur Lynch

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. — Judy Collins

need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you. — Atul Gawande

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence. — Philip Roth

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

Stop being alive, and start living. — T.M. Frazier

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

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? — Kurt Vonnegut

The world is screaming. The world is being burned alive. — Rick Yancey

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out. — Irvine Welsh

My tattoos say "Stay strong." "Stay" on one wrist and "strong" on the other. I'm able to look at them and be thankful for being alive. — Demi Lovato

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

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this? — George Orwell

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead. — Carew Papritz

Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city. — Blake Crouch

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead. — T-Pain

Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled. — Prem Rawat

I can't remember when I stopped being alive. — Maggie Stiefvater

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it. — Mike Nichols

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray. — Tom Hiddleston

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late. — Phyllis A. Whitney

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

...simply being alive was not enough to be called living" -Kahlen — Kiera Cass

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris

But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. — George Orwell

Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action. — Jeff Bridges

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive. — Mario Sorrenti

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly, — Alexandra Kleeman

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

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful — Gwyneth Lewis

You look older, son." "Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe. — Alastair Reynolds

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so. — John Updike

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first. — Matt Corby

Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you're alive and its spectacular. — Joseph Campbell

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted. — Arlo Guthrie

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death. — Heather Brooke

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important. — Peter Dinklage

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough. — Robert Thurman

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. — E. E. Cummings

Keeping the energy centers we call chakras open and balanced is absolutely essential to being intuitive and also being healthy and fully alive. — Catherine Carrigan

Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive. — Steven Bauer

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease. — Steven Pinker

To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her. — Julianne Skai Arbor

What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined. — Daniel Kraus

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death. — Gena Rowlands

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. — Eusebius

Being alive is a risk. — Emily St. John Mandel

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations — Stanley Victor Paskavich

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. — David Lagercrantz

How nice
to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image. — Golda Meir

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing. — Aya Kito

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake. — Tim Winton

We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive. — Sarah Waters

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet. — George Carlin

I felt like I was being eaten alive by guilt, and what I needed what your patience and your kindness, not for you to yell at me. — Veronica Roth

I don't need anyone else to tell me how to be alive. — Marty Rubin

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

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. — Richard Louv

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. — John Steinbeck

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time. — Leslie Marmon Silko

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive. — Ellen Langer

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different
it is being alive. — Lauren Oliver

Hall, you should have died. Do pushups for being alive." Greg Hall knocked out twenty happy pushups and yelled, "Hooyah for being alive. — Eric Greitens

It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith. — Alexander Maksik

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being. — Raj Bhavsar

It's remarkable, being alive. — Michael Cunningham

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso

Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time. — Kate Bush