Between Birth And Death Quotes

#1. Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.

Ilchi Lee

#2. 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.

Johann Baptist Metz

#3. There is a magical dream that fills the gap between birth and death; we call it life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Life is the time between birth and death, so express your love to enjoy your time.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Life is nothing but the dash between birth and death.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

#8. To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.

Hannah

#9. The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I think that in the space between birth and death you can have one life, or you can have many. But in order to have many, you also need the strength to end the one that came before. And there lies the tricky part.

L. H. Cosway

#12. In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Dean Koontz

#13. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#14. It's taken me my whole life to understand that the only thing between birth and death is love, that love is life.

Larry Benjamin

#15. As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn't. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenomena?

Ilchi Lee

#16. Life is the gap between birth and death, so enjoy your gap.

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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.

Dean Koontz

#18. For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#19. I'm going through an awkward stage. You know, the one between birth and death.

Scott Roeben

#20. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.

Ken MacLeod

#21. How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Edwin Way Teale

#22. I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between

Ani DiFranco

#23. Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Mary Roach

#24. "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."

Anthony De Mello

#25. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#27. Once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

Martha Ostenso

#28. Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Peter Greenaway

#30. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?

Rachel Van Dyken

#31. Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

Brendan Myers

#32. The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

T. S. Eliot

#33. Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.

Seanan McGuire

#34. We know birth and we know death; the mystery is everything in-between.

Marty Rubin

#35. I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,

Walt Whitman

#36. If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

#37. How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.

Anais Nin

#38. We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty.

Terry Pratchett

#39. At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances.

Dalai Lama XIV

#40. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...

Taylor Swift

#41. To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.

Stephen Cox

#42. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

Scott Sanders

#43. I've learned to accept birth and death ... but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#44. We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

Jesse Jackson

#45. Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Regina Brett

#46. 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?

Alan Rufus

#47. In the life of a child of the elite, there are many moments ripe for a grand celebration. There are birth and the inevitable death.In between,various stages of consciousness define the nature and scale of celebration.

K.J. Kilton

#48. We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

John Updike

#49. 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.

Oswald Chambers

#50. 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.

Orhan Pamuk

#51. Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

#52. You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Tom Rachman

#53. It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#54. Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Irvin D. Yalom