Alive Quote by Erich Fromm

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

— Herbert Otto Gille

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

— John O'Donohue

The first duty of life is to live.

— Burt Lancaster

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

— Herbert Otto Gille

“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think…

— Glenda Jackson

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope…

— John Banville

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

— Chuck Klosterman

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

— Christian Wiman

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

— N.D. Wilson

“Being alive isn't the same thing as living”

— Jess Walter