“Like being alive one moment and dead the next.”
“You are going to die someday, likely within the next 100 years. Make sure that you set aside some time for yourself today, and spend at least one moment of it just enjoying being alive.”
“Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.”
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
“Once we've tasted being alive, we can't go back to being dead. Aliveness in God is addictive.”
“I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.”