Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

“Writing novels means being plural, being divided among your creatures and suffering with them.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe…

— Reza Aslan

“You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying.”

— Kate Bassett

“You have no idea," he says to me, "what it means to truly suffer. Sometimes I think you live in some fantasy land where…

— Tahereh Mafi

When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out. Don't get startled; don't get frustrated. If you can say the word 'good,' guess…

— Jocko Willink

“G. K. Chesterton wrote: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”2 Change means you’re…

— Jen Hatmaker

“Life's a riddle, child," he said lightly, "but if you can feel the bumps on the road, it means you're alive and in the…

— C.A. Belmond

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

— Joan Rivers

“I’m fated to lose everyone I ever love,” April said. “I already know that.” “Of course you are,” Jet responded in her calm, measured…

— Alice Hoffman

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

— Yann Martel

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

— Chuck Klosterman

“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your…

— Paul Harding

“Perhaps we only leave So we may once again arrive, To get a bird's eye view Of what it means to be alive. For…

— Erin Hanson

“Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences -…

— John Barrowman

You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else…

— Claudia Gray