"For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence."
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"A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless."
"Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive..."
"Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out."
"I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive."
"For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"
"Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without."
"My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing."
"How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"
"Love is a special way of being alive."
"Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part."
"Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it."
"Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me."
"An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas."
"Racism is still alive they just be concealing it"
"Oh my god, it's good to be alive!"
"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
"All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive."
"You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world."
"A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others."