Louise Erdrich Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

• What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Past, Long

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

• Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, People, Three

• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Death, Heart

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.197, Odyssey Editions

• We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Perfect, Inspire

• Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Life Is, Short Words

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