Countee Cullen Quotes

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.