Louise Erdrich Quotes

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Death is the gate of life.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!