“Being alive is just a brief technicality.”

“Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.”

“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”

“Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.”

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

“Where is the miracle in Jesus being dead in the tomb instead of being alive just as the people expected Jonah to be dead inside a fish?”

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

“This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.”

“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”

“The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.”