Quotes on I Am Alive

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.