“It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.”— Allie Brosh, amazon.com
“She turned my heart to ash arrived to me on a bright red comet a chariot to trample my soul into the sand leaving glass for me to walk upon— and yet I loved her feeling because it was a feeling and it was so finally true it hurt more than the rest had hurt before but inside it made me burn I was ali…”— Atticus, instagram.com
“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”— Gayle Roper, amazon.com
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“The majority of the living weary us or are strangers to us. We truly know and love only the dead. So long as man is alive one does not know what he is or what he will do. We have unwavering confidence only in the dead.”— Maurice Maeterlinck, amazon.com
“I sit down and I close my eyes and I'm alive, really alive. Maybe more alive then I've been in a long time. More alive than I was before there was death in my life. It's a good feeling; knowing that death killed a part of me but brought life to another. There is a balance to it all and today I didn'…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't much matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere bu…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I’m alive. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I know the old saying ‘Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.’ Well, nothing tastes as good as being alive either.”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com