Louise Erdrich Quotes

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Time stays, we go.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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

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.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.