It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey

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

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

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

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim Allen

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
Neale Donald Walsch

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.
Rick Warren

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Robin Williams

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
William J. Clinton

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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