Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard Branson

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael Jackson

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
John Frusciante

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James A. Baldwin

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson