The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

- Allen Ginsberg

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

- Arthur Erickson

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

- Art Modell

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

- Anthony Hopkins

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

- Ansel Adams

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

- Annie Besant

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.

- Anne Lamott

It's a great time to be alive.

- Anne Lamott

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

- Ani DiFranco

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

- Andy Warhol

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

- Action Bronson

It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

- Albert Schweitzer

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

- Alan King

I have a strong preference for being alive.

- Alan Alda

I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

- Alan Alda

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

- Adrienne Rich