Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.
I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite.
It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.
A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.
How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.
I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.
I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!
