Stephie Pahlavi Zan quote: “I'm living but I'm not alive.”

“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm not living,
I'm just killing time”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

True Love Waits
Lyrics, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

“Don't think I'm so odd and strange … I'm not…. I'm legion … I've lived alone, but I'm everywhere.”

Richard Wright book The Outsider

The Outsider (1953)

“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

“You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.”

Philip Reeve Mortal Engines

Source: Mortal Engines

“I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals (2009)
Context: People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong. They're packed body to body, and can't escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It's wrong. They feel their slaughters. It's wrong, and people know it's wrong. They don't have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.