I Am Alive Quotes - Page 2

• So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Trying, One Day

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• Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Hurt, Here I Am, Trying

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• There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

  Franz Kafka

  Beautiful, Real, Talking

  "In the penal settlement: tales and short prose works".

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• A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Eye, Looks, Alive

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• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Alive, World

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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

  Garth Stein

  Life, Joy, Encounters

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Air

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!

  Julia Sweeney

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Religious

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• That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

  David Levithan

  Responsibility, Air, Dust

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• One, two, three four five,
  All is well I am alive,
  Six,seven,eight nine ten,
  All is well, no whining then!

  Eugene Sue

  Eight, Two, Three

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• Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Life, Spring, Believe

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Alive, May

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.53, Random House

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• And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sweaters, Alive, Carolina

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Thinking, Vanity

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• As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

  Henry Miller

  Departed, Dawn, Alive

  "A Henry Miller reader".

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• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  Stephen Spender

  People, Age, Alive

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• We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.

  Jane Yolen

  Long, Gone, Stories

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• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Long, Chinese, Alive

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• I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.

  Heidi Julavits

  Sleep, Night, People

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• I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!

  Christopher Isherwood

  Blood, Energy, Delight

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

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• I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Alive, Normal, Humans

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• I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Despair, Alive

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• Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

  Sophia Loren

  Thinking, Here I Am, Alive

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• While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

  Habib Bourguiba

  Hair, Alive, Touched

  "Religion: Exodus". content.time.com. July 6, 1962.

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• All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

  Henry Rollins

  Track, Records, Alive

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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