Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

People don't live or die, people just float.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.