Quote by Brandon Mull

“Alive was good. Everything else was bullshit.”

— K.A. Mitchell

“Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

— Suzanne Collins

“Are you okay?” “I'm alive,” he said simply.”

— Amanda Hocking

“I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.”

— Joanna Field

“Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive.”

— Stephen King

“Living was hard enough. Dying was a supreme task.”

— John Fante

“Being alive is a killer, if you think about it.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I was not living but actively dying.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.”

— Sarah Miller

“Killing was easy. Dying was something else.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“Sometimes dying’s okay,” he said. “Sometimes keeping something alive just means you’re making it hurt more.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Survival, it turned out, wasn't the same as living.”

— Rhoda Belleza