Top 100 Born Died Quotes
#1. Do you wish you would die?
No. But I might wish I had died. When you're alive you've always got that ahead of you.
Or you might wish you'd never been born.
Well. Beggars cant be choosers.
Cormac McCarthy
#3. My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.
Rita Mae Brown
#4. I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
Jamie Wyeth
#5. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Freddy Fender
#6. All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
Harold Prince
#7. [...]life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we were alive we had choices. We could choose to be and do whatever we wanted.
James Frey
#8. No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
Charles Caleb Colton
#9. ... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind.
Martha Gellhorn
#10. That the woman in her had died in anguish and a vengeful man had been born in her place apparently brooked no notice of the universe. Nor had the universe even blinked in the absorption into itself of her tragedy.
Karen Kondazian
#11. Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.
Terry Pratchett
#12. And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.
George R R Martin
#13. I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.
Shilpa Shetty
#14. I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Humphrey Bogart
#15. Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!
Muhammad Iqbal
#16. Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.
Sharon Kay Penman
#17. Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#18. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.
William Dalrymple
#19. 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#20. We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday.
Andrea Gibson
#21. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
#22. I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.
Anthony Liccione
#23. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#25. I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Dorothy B. Hughes
#27. but that was before my mom died, which also happened to be the day I was born.
Stormy Smith
#28. He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)
W. A. Criswell
#29. My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
Oona Chaplin
#30. Our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more
E. E. Cummings
#31. About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart.
Bill Condon
#32. In Christ we live as God's beloved before we were born and after we have died; all the circumstances in between will not negate that. Jean
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#33. God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.
Joel Osteen
#34. He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.
Hermann Hesse
#35. I was born the day you kissed me,
died the day you left me,
but lived for the time that you loved me
Anju
#36. A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.
Alan Dean Foster
#37. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or other, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives
Neil Gaiman
#38. I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
Eugene O'Neill
#39. Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.
Jeno Marz
#40. The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.
Simon Van Booy
#42. Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other.
Julie Berry
#43. Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart mug. Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived.
Carl Sagan
#44. As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.
George Whitefield
#45. I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.
Pearl S. Buck
#46. In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.
Tony D'Souza
#47. This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.
Paul Robeson
#48. What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.
Martin Heidegger
#49. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died - As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!
Florence Scovel Shinn
#50. I hate that her headstone has a year on it for when she was born and another for when she died but only a dash for the life she lived in between.
Juliann Garey
#51. Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.
Sinead O'Connor
#52. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)
Anonymous
#53. When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#54. The library was like a stone quarry where no rain had fallen in ten thousand years. Way off in that direction: silence. Way off in that direction: hush. It was the time between things finished and things begun. Nobody died here. Nobody was born. The library, and all its books, just were. We
Ray Bradbury
#55. V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.
Darin Strauss
#56. I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.
Tig Notaro
#57. warriors - be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore - knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born.
Kresley Cole
#60. My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
Koichi Tanaka
#61. So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love
But for livin' I was born.
Langston Hughes
#62. Millions of dreams were born there, around us, every day. Millions of dreams died there, and were born again. The humid air was thick with dreams, everywhere, in my Mumbai.
Gregory David Roberts
#63. Babies were born, old people died, stocks were traded, and someone faked an orgasm. All in those five seconds.
Alice Clayton
#64. They were soldiers of the sea, born and bred to battle her, taking her bounty along the way. Some succeeded and lived, others failed and died, but that was the life he'd been destined to have.
Amber Lynn Natusch
#65. The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.
Markus Zusak
#66. It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that's the way the world worked - people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can't have everything you want at the same time.
Jacqueline Woodson
#67. In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
Rory Bremner
#68. Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.
Rachel Reiland
#69. Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
Ayana Mathis
#70. There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another ... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#71. And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron.
Hesiod
#72. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.
Denny Taylor
#73. A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough ... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.
Voltaire
#74. But it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours- being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
John Steinbeck
#75. I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
Jacques Pepin
#76. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
J.D. Salinger
#77. Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
Jamie Wyeth
#78. Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.
Anthony Burgess
#79. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
#80. When Christ was born he lay in a virgin's womb, and when he died he was placed in a virgin tomb; he slept where never man had slept before. The
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay
Tom Nissley
#82. SOLOMON KUGEL
His performance, of late,
had been subpar.
Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.
Shalom Auslander
#83. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do.
Lemony Snicket
#84. I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#85. IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#86. I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.
Dwight Howard
#87. She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
C.S. Harris
#89. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?
How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?
But not this one.
Amie Kaufman
#90. My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.
Tyson Fury
#91. My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
Gabriel Luna
#92. Once people were born alive and slowly they died. Now one is born dead and slowly has to come to life.
Roberto Bazlen
#93. Robert Strauss, the former Democratic chairman who died last year, once said every politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself.
Anonymous
#94. I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me
Dorothy B. Hughes
#95. No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#96. The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the joyless. He would serve mankind by reminding them every year that a King had been born who had died for thier sins.
Glenn Beck
#97. The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips.
Markus Zusak
#98. Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.
Jonathan Galassi
#99. My real mom died when I was born - hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has never been one of my favorite memories - and Dad married Denise before I'd turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the
matter. Denise and I never really clicked.
Darynda Jones
#100. Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.
Robert Benchley
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