Nicole Krauss Quotes

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

From the end spring new beginnings.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

Nature abhors the old.

Death is the mother of forms.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

We are created by being destroyed.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

With destruction comes renovation.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.