Quotes about birth and Death

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Votes: 8

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. Votes: 7

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. Votes: 7

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. Votes: 7

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. Votes: 7

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. Votes: 6

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. Votes: 6

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing Votes: 5

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation. Votes: 5

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. Votes: 5

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth. Votes: 5

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. Votes: 5

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy. Votes: 5

When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death. Votes: 5

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me. Votes: 5

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else. Votes: 5

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being. Votes: 5

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. Votes: 4

A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death Votes: 4

I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. Votes: 4

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. Votes: 4

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 4

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle. Votes: 3

We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. Votes: 3

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death Votes: 3

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. Votes: 3

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. Votes: 3

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between. Votes: 3

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars. Votes: 3

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. Votes: 3

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. Votes: 3

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come. Votes: 3

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God. Votes: 3

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. Votes: 3

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. Votes: 3

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. Votes: 3

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 3

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. Votes: 3

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. Votes: 3

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities. Votes: 3

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate. Votes: 3

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. Votes: 3

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die. Votes: 3

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting. Votes: 3

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life. Votes: 3

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between." Votes: 3

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma. Votes: 3

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death. Votes: 3

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it. Votes: 3

We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity. Votes: 3

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see. Votes: 3

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. Votes: 3

...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love. Votes: 3

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it. Votes: 3

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. Votes: 3

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. Votes: 3

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Votes: 3

When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. Votes: 3

Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Votes: 3

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself. Votes: 3

All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss. Votes: 3

Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds. Votes: 3

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. Votes: 3

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge "life" and "death" are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss. Votes: 3

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe. Votes: 3

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. Votes: 3

There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now. Votes: 3

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Votes: 2

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Votes: 2

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. Votes: 2

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. Votes: 2

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. Votes: 2

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. Votes: 2

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. Votes: 2

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. Votes: 2

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. Votes: 2

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Votes: 2

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance. Votes: 2

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death. Votes: 1

Birth was the death of him. Votes: 0

Birth is the beginning of death Votes: 0

Birth, not death, is the hard loss. Votes: 0

From birth to death we are alone ... Votes: 0

The leading cause of death is birth. Votes: 0

Death is feared as birth is forgotten. Votes: 0

Death was no less a miracle than birth. Votes: 0

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Votes: 0

The death of dogma is the birth of morality. Votes: 0

Death is birth into the realm of the spirit. Votes: 0

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance. Votes: 0

The birth of science was the death of superstition. Votes: 0

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. Votes: 0

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Votes: 0

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things. Votes: 0

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end. Votes: 0

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth. Votes: 0

Your birth may be common, But death must be history. Votes: 0

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. Votes: 0

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Votes: 0

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Votes: 0

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream. Votes: 0

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death Votes: 0

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. Votes: 0

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses Votes: 0

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. Votes: 0

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. Votes: 0

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. Votes: 0

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Votes: 0

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. Votes: 0

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. Votes: 0

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date. Votes: 0

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. Votes: 0

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops. Votes: 0

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death. Votes: 0

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. Votes: 0

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. Votes: 0

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death. Votes: 0

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life . Votes: 0

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. Votes: 0

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. Votes: 0

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. Votes: 0

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Votes: 0

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? Votes: 0

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. Votes: 0

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain. Votes: 0

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. Votes: 0

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. Votes: 0

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. Votes: 0

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.... Votes: 0

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. Votes: 0

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. Votes: 0

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. Votes: 0

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Votes: 0

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death. Votes: 0

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. Votes: 0

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. Votes: 0

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death. Votes: 0

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. Votes: 0

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. Votes: 0

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Votes: 0

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, Votes: 0

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. Votes: 0

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance Votes: 0

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Votes: 0

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. Votes: 0

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death. Votes: 0

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together. Votes: 0

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up. Votes: 0

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall. Votes: 0

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? Votes: 0

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. Votes: 0

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. Votes: 0

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life. Votes: 0

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. Votes: 0

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! Votes: 0

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up. Votes: 0

Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in. Votes: 0

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. Votes: 0

While we cried at birth, others were rejoicing and while we smile to death, others were crying...irony of life Votes: 0

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. Votes: 0

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. Votes: 0

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." Votes: 0

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade. Votes: 0

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. Votes: 0

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death Votes: 0

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. Votes: 0

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. Votes: 0

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming. Votes: 0

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Votes: 0

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. Votes: 0

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist Votes: 0

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life. Votes: 0

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots, Votes: 0

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. Votes: 0

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. Votes: 0

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love. Votes: 0

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities. Votes: 0

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point. Votes: 0

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild. Votes: 0

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death. Votes: 0

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia. Votes: 0

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. Votes: 0

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Votes: 0

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down Votes: 0

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death. Votes: 0

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning. Votes: 0

The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new Votes: 0

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves. Votes: 0

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning. Votes: 0

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice. Votes: 0

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. Votes: 0

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of. Votes: 0

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison? Votes: 0

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial. Votes: 0

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. Votes: 0

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death. Votes: 0

In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death. Votes: 0

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection. Votes: 0

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping. Votes: 0

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death. Votes: 0

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Votes: 0

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death. Votes: 0

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. Votes: 0

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. Votes: 0

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. Votes: 0

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. Votes: 0

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. Votes: 0

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. Votes: 0

This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death. Votes: 0

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die. Votes: 0

Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman. Votes: 0

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being. Votes: 0

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals. Votes: 0

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it. Votes: 0

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time. Votes: 0

I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate. Votes: 0

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Votes: 0

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. Votes: 0

Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage. Votes: 0

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death. Votes: 0

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. Votes: 0

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. Votes: 0

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness. Votes: 0

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage. Votes: 0

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier. Votes: 0

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live. Votes: 0

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. Votes: 0

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. Votes: 0

...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night. Votes: 0

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. Votes: 0

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. Votes: 0

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new. Votes: 0

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death. Votes: 0

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. Votes: 0

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org Votes: 0

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Votes: 0

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. Votes: 0

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave. Votes: 0