Quote by Jonathan Hull

“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“But all that was as automatic as her beating heart, as subconscious as breathing - what she felt above all was the fierce tingling…

— Lisa Verge Higgins

“What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That…

— Roshani Chokshi

“He made her feel alive.”

— Julia Crane

“Reality revived. She frowned and gazed ahead, feeling numb still after all these months, yet unable to believe it was true, wanting to lift…

— Laura Kinsale

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott

“Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.”

— Anonymous

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live—full of passion and fierce energy.”

— Nina Levine

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín