“Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good…”— Trey Parker, Butters, Matt Stone, imdb.com
“I always say that I could have probably used a drink right out of the womb. I’ve never been that chill about being alive.”— Melissa Broder, hazlitt.net
“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
“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
“'How wonderful to be alive,' he thought. 'But why does it always hurt?'”— Boris Pasternak, 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
“And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify that fact.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour And each pulse, each throb each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘You are still alive’ …So act like it”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.”— Howard Thurman, amazon.com
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”— Carlos Castaneda, goodreads.com
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“How improbable was that, Hank? How improbable are we? How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all?”— John Green, youtube.com
“Life is any system that continuously decreases its own entropy using energy around it.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Life wants. If thing x requires thing y in order to continue its existence, and thing x shows attempts to acquire thing y, then thing x, apparently wanting thing y, is alive.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“I really believe that gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.”— John Green, youtube.com
“One of the points of being alive is that we get to pay attention; we get to both participate in and observe this weird universe that is simultaneously stunningly elegant and completely heartless.”— John Green, youtube.com