“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality; so tha…”— Joseph Campbell, facebook.com
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, "Yo, what the fuck?"”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“And for some reason, I always felt a little more when I would hear you laugh.”— R. M. Drake, theodysseyonline.com
“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I am on the train going back to Stieglitz – and in a hurry to get there – I have had four months west and it seems to be all that I needed – It has been like the wind and the sun – there doesn't seem to have been a crack of the waking day or night that wasn’t full – I haven't gained an ounce in weig…”— Georgia O’Keeffe, en.wikiquote.org
“Do you ever wake up, make love to the person next to you and be thankful you're alive? I did this morning, I have to stop falling asleep at the morgue.”— nummnutz, reddit.com
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.”— Richard Silken, amazon.com
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly…”— Yevgeny Zamyatin, amazon.com
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com