Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.