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Top 25 Elizabeth Alexander Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.”

1. “They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.”

2. “Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “For loss is our common denominator. None of us will escape it. None of us will outrun death. What do we do in the space between that is our lives? What is the quality and richness of our lives? How do we move through struggle and let community hold us when we have been laid low? This.”

3. “For loss is our common denominator. None of us will escape it. None of us will outrun death. What do we do in the space between that is our lives? What is the quality and richness of our lives? How do we move through struggle and let community hold us when we have been laid low? This.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”

4. “The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.”

5. “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.”

6. “In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other’s lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave.”

7. “Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other’s lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while – the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman – but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.”

8. “There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while – the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman – but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”

9. “Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.”

10. “It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “I been in sorrow’s kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain’t got long to stay here.”

11. “I been in sorrow’s kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain’t got long to stay here.”

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Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.”

12. “Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.”

13. “In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly. In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.”

14. “Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly. In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “I wake up grateful, for life is a gift.”

15. “I wake up grateful, for life is a gift.”

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Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out?”

16. “The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out?”

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Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “And so i write to fix him in place, to pass time in his company, to make sure I remember, even though I know I will never forget.”

17. “And so i write to fix him in place, to pass time in his company, to make sure I remember, even though I know I will never forget.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.”

18. “Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?”

19. “I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “The days are long but the years are short,” some say, about the early years of child rearing.”

20. “The days are long but the years are short,” some say, about the early years of child rearing.”

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Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore.”

21. “Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”

22. “Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Sorrow like vapor, sorrow like smoke, sorrow like quicksand, sorrow like an ocean, sorrow louder and fuller than the church songs, sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go.”

23. “Sorrow like vapor, sorrow like smoke, sorrow like quicksand, sorrow like an ocean, sorrow louder and fuller than the church songs, sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?”

24. “Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?”

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Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “I was a ten in sadness when I was crying, Mommy, but now I am a six. Whoops, he says, it just went down to five. He comes out of the shower and puts on his pajamas. Now it’s just a three. He brushes his teeth. Now it’s all gone, he says. We were with Daddy when he died.”

25. “I was a ten in sadness when I was crying, Mommy, but now I am a six. Whoops, he says, it just went down to five. He comes out of the shower and puts on his pajamas. Now it’s just a three. He brushes his teeth. Now it’s all gone, he says. We were with Daddy when he died.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “My mother-in-law’s last night on earth, a fox crossed our path in Branford, Connecticut, as we left the hospice. We knew somehow that it was her, as I now know the ravenous hawk came to take Ficre. Do I believe that? Yes, I do. Poetic logic is my logic. I do not believe she was a fox. But I believe the fox was a harbinger. I believe that it was a strange enough occurrence that it should be heeded. Zememesh Berhe, the quick, red fox, soon passed from this life to the next.”

26. “My mother-in-law’s last night on earth, a fox crossed our path in Branford, Connecticut, as we left the hospice. We knew somehow that it was her, as I now know the ravenous hawk came to take Ficre. Do I believe that? Yes, I do. Poetic logic is my logic. I do not believe she was a fox. But I believe the fox was a harbinger. I believe that it was a strange enough occurrence that it should be heeded. Zememesh Berhe, the quick, red fox, soon passed from this life to the next.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “To live in memory and in dreams is a cruel comfort.”

27. “To live in memory and in dreams is a cruel comfort.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Quote: “Flowers live, they are perfect and they affect us; they are God’s glory, they make us know why we are alive and human, that we behold. They are beautiful, and then they die and rot and go back to the earth that gave birth to them.”

28. “Flowers live, they are perfect and they affect us; they are God’s glory, they make us know why we are alive and human, that we behold. They are beautiful, and then they die and rot and go back to the earth that gave birth to them.”

— Elizabeth Alexander

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