31 Inspiring Alive Quotes

Feeling alive goes beyond merely existing; it's about embracing experiences, diving deep into passions, and living with a sense of wonder. Sometimes, a few words can reignite that spark and remind us of the beauty in every moment. In this post, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 31 inspiring quotes about being alive. Let these words of wisdom and motivation help you rediscover the vibrancy and excitement of life. Dive in and let the inspiration flow!

1. “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.” - Jack London

2. “I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.” - Ray Bradbury

3. “‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.” - John Green

4. “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” - Joanne Harris

5. “He studied the room, looking for the Oracle, but he couldn't see anyone else in attendance - at least not anyone alive.” - Shaun Jeffrey

6. “If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” - Chad Sugg

7. “And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.” - Mary Balogh

8. “Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now that you're here - alive and all - there's something I've wanted to do for a very long time."Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshie's right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might.This was one strong fleshie!The punch connected with Mary's eye so hard, that Mary's entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allie's knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain."My eye!" wailed Mary. "Oh! My eye.” - Neal Shusterman

9. “I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.” - Jeff Lindsay

10. “I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.” - Ernest Hemingway

11. “Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.Suddenly, you know you are alive.” - Vera Nazarian

12. “She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.” - J.D. Robb

13. “Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.” - Sebastian Faulks

14. “One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.” - Sebastian Faulks

15. “Every part of me pulses with electric energy. Every synapse is firing, every part of me is alert, awake, and what I think is that this, this feeling, this is real. This feeling of being absolutely alive, absolutely in this moment, this is as real as it gets.” - Theresa Alan

16. “You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in.” - Courtney Summers

17. “When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” - Margery Williams Bianco

18. “And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.” - Yukako Kabei

19. “...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...” - John Geddes

20. “I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.” - Meg Howrey

21. “When we allow the walls around our hearts to become rigid, and stay that way, we assign ourselves a slow death. Like the very air and water that flows through our physical body to sustain it, love must flow through our heart to keep it supple, and to keep us truly alive.” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

22. “Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.” - Suzanne Collins

23. “[Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.” - Jamaica Kincaid

24. “Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.” - Dejan Stojanovic

25. “God we must look so lame, but it doesn't much matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.” - John Green

26. “You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.” - Nicholas Sparks

27. “I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.” - Kevin Powers

28. “Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards.” - jay woodman

29. “He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking” - Jack Kerouac

30. “Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves.” - Arthur C. McGill

31. “You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.” - Margaret Way