Alive Quote by Richelle Mead

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to…

— Richelle Mead

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home…

— Kerry Kennedy

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.…

— Cheryl Strayed

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many…

— C. S. Lewis

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved…

— Pamela Des Barres

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

— Pat Conroy

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful;…

— Mark Twain

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

We were so happy to be alive. There was a motel there pretty close. We had a big cup of coffee. Everybody had a…

— Rod Hundley

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like…

— Albert Camus

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and…

— Jamaica Kincaid