We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history.

This place, it reminds me how lucky I am — just to be alive, to be walking out of here.

I consider myself very blessed and fortunate.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean.

It’s remarkable, being alive.

I was so thankful to just be alive. Things that bothered me before... nothing, I have become much more peaceful and less worried about anything.

but you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

I’m alive, I think, and so many of my friends are not. I may be nuts to be doing this, but I’m kind of proud of myself. I am having an adventure. I like my life. Even if I have to stand here for the rest of it.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

I was glad I was alive. Glad to be alive. It had been the sort of night that didn’t look like having any morning, but here I was and I was glad. The girls were glad. I was warm and dry and fed, the jonge Genever was happily chasing the red corpuscles in a game of merry-go-round, all the coloured threads were weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern and by day’s end it would be over. I had never felt so good before. I was never to feel so good again.

I am so happy to be alive in this world
I would like to live forever, but I am
content not to. Seeing what I have seen
has filled me; believing what I believe
has filled me.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.