We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L’instinct de survie - Prouve qu’on est en vie.)

...a soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive.

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

I was the last person to see her alive. The cops don’t believe me, because I saw her before I was born.

And if you don't have someone to tell you, I want you to know, that I am glad that you're alive today.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

If you don't make peace with your own mortality, you'll never know what it's like to truly be alive.