Quotes about Life

Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself. She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking. Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground. Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.

Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody thought he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

Thank God for life, True Belle said, and thank life for death.

Well, that's the way it was. Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody though he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.

That all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.

To the two who gave me life and the one who made me free