“Are you alive, do you still exist?”

“Do you know the warm progress under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?
Have you been born yet
& are you alive?”

“If money didn’t exist, would you still get up every morning and do what you do for a living?”

“Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?”

“Katniss…. he's still trying to keep you alive.”

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

“Why is not the original deposited in some public library, instead of exhibiting attestations of its existence? Suppose there were a question in a court of justice, whether a man be dead or alive. You aver he is alive, and you bring fifty witnesses to swear it. I answer, 'Why do you not produce the man?”

“For those of you who are still going through the process of identifying and daily examining your parents, you must not forget the blessings that they are still alive and living together with you.”

“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”

“What, still alive at twenty-two,
A clean upstanding chap like you?”