Paul Claudel Quotes

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

If war teaches you anything, it is an appreciation of being alive.

I love being alive. I like being a human being.

Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.