Quotes About Births And Deaths

#1. Men are essentially useless for the difficult things in life. For births and deaths, one clearheaded woman is more useful than a half-dozen men.

Laura Bickle

#2. The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

Annie Besant

#3. These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. 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.

Annie Besant

#5. Ah well, 'tis the way of the world
births and deaths, births and deaths.

Leonid Andreyev

#6. A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

Tracy Rees

#7. Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life - the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.

Richard Carlson

#8. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#9. The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Thomas Malthus

#10. What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

O. Henry

#11. In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London.

Bill Bryson

#12. She really needs to believe she's special. I admire that about her. Because you have to believe you're special before you can do anything special

Wendy Wunder

#13. I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just always make sure I have a great haircut.

Chyler Leigh

#14. The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

Edmund Morgan

#15. Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our deaths have more of an impact than our births. It can inspire people to do great things, even greater than they would have had the deaths not happened at all.

S.L. Naeole

#16. ... but what are people but deaths that haven't happened yet?"
"Births that already happened?" Jacky said without thinking.
The mayor laughed. She looked different when she laughed, and then she stopped laughing and she did not look different anymore.

Joseph Fink

#17. We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

Joan D. Chittister

#18. The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

Kenneth C. Davis

#19. The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

David Whitehouse

#20. We're Nephilim. Every one of our life's passages has some mystical component - our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone's parabatai. It's no small commitment.

Cassandra Clare

#21. There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.

Gottfried Leibniz

#22. Those who understand will understand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#23. Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

Nikolai Bukharin

#24. Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.

Jodie Marsh

#25. Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!

William Shakespeare

#26. Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?

Richard Powers

#27. I am called a great swordsman because I invented a lethal style; but who is greater, the creator of a killing form - or the master of the classic form?"
"I'm very flattered that you would consider me a master but really - "
"Not a master. The master.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#28. Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,
and let my obedience align itself with such iron
conditions
that the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shake
the deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

Mark Eisner

#29. You're too late. She's my wife."
"No, she's your widow."
His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#30. Words don't mean, people mean.

Alfred Korzybski

#31. Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#32. The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.

Edmund Morgan

#33. Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Ariel Dorfman