Quotes About Being Reborn

#1. Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

Marianne Williamson

#2. I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha,

Banana Yoshimoto

#3. Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Like a phoenix bursting into flame and a rain of sparks before being reborn in its own ashes, it had taken burning up in my own misery for me to realize I didn't need other people to believe in me before I could do something. I had to believe in myself.

Jodi Meadows

#6. Reuben says in many cultures, the wedding ceremony and all of it's rituals are much the same as a funeral: a transition into another phase of life.
It is like dying and being reborn, if you believe in the afterlife. If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you are toast

Suzanne Finnamore

#7. It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Frederick Lenz

#8. There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Thomm Quackenbush

#9. In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#10. Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

Sacha Guitry

#11. Love hurts. First love is excruciating. Like being burned in orange flames and then cast into icy water. Your emotions change from one second to the next. You can't sleep. You never sleep. First love is a form of dying and being reborn.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#13. The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

Tom Robbins

#14. She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Marquis De Sade

#15. The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

Jeff Lynne

#16. The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do ... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal ...

Ani DiFranco

#17. India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Shashi Tharoor

#18. It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.

C. JoyBell C.

#19. Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

Robert Jordan

#20. You have to die a human being to be reborn an individual.

Henry Miller

#21. he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

Gao Xingjian

#22. Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.

E. E. Cummings

#23. Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

William E. Gladstone

#24. To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.

Aldous Huxley

#25. Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#26. What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

Steven Redhead

#27. I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Clint Eastwood

#28. We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.

Dalai Lama

#29. There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue,

Stephen King

#30. I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Geoffrey Hinton

#31. Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.

Bryant McGill

#32. Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ; by his moral nature - that is, he acts upon it, thinks about it, and feels toward it.

Richard Maurice Bucke

#33. In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

Henry Louis Gates

#34. That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone.

Meg Rosoff

#35. Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for far too long. When someone else can take us from the ghost-town of our inner-selves, to exciting new landscapes, it's worth the risk, just to feel reborn.

Jaeda DeWalt

#36. My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.

Chelsea Handler

#37. It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Sarah Dessen