Ernest Gaines Quotes

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

'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.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

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.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.