Glad To Be Alive Quotes:

He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.

- Paul Auster

source: Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.5, Faber & Faber

topic: Glad To Be Alive, Littles, Facts, Posthumous

When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

- Neil Peart

source: Neil Peart (2011). “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle”, p.22, ECW Press

topic: Motorcycle, Riding, Glad To Be Alive

Rejoice in the abundance of being able to awaken each morning and experience a new day. Be glad to be alive, to be healthy, to have friends, to be creative, to be a living example of the joy of living. Live to your highest awareness. Enjoy your transformationa l process.

- Louise Hay

topic: Morning, New Day, Joy, Glad To Be Alive

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

- Hafez

topic: Alive, Glad, Glad To Be Alive

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Alive, Glad To Be Alive, Green Gables

The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on, It does something to you from the inside out . . . It hits people in so many different ways. But the feeling is one that is satisfying and joyful. It is a feeling that makes you say to yourself, ' I'm glad to be alive today! I'm glad to be part of this world!

- Babatunde Olatunji

topic: Hands, People, Feelings, Glad To Be Alive

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

- Wallace Stegner

source: Wallace Stegner, James Hepworth (1998). “Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner”

topic: Humble, Responsibility, Men, Rights And Privileges, Glad To Be Alive

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: Grateful, Shooting, Alive, Muggers, Glad To Be Alive

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

- Ray Manzarek

topic: Ideas, Mad, Greed, Glad To Be Alive

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

- Andrew Davidson

source: Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.161, Canongate Books

topic: Thinking, Wish, Alive, Glad To Be Alive

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1857, e-artnow

topic: Lovely, Alive, World, Glad To Be Alive, Green Gables