Louise Erdrich Quotes

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Life, the permission to know death.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day.

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.