Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

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.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

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

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

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

Death is the mother of forms.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

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

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

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

Death is another life.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.