I can say to myself, “You’ve been through that and you are…

I've never been so alone / And I've never been so alive

— Ibtissem

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

— Stephen Dunn

Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of…

— Frederick Lenz

“Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

— Jonathan Wittenberg

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

— James Haven

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

— David Krieger

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

— Bob Costas

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

— Orson Scott Card

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

— Marianne Williamson

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

— Tariq Ramadan

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

— David Bowie

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

— Adam Ant

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen