Anne Lamott Quotes

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

The longest Day hath an Eueninge.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.