Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Life itself is a quotation.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

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.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

I have a rendezvous with life.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.