Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

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 the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

As goes love so goes life.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

I'll only live 'til I die

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.