Sayings About Death And Birth

#1. I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Rachel McAdams

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

Marilyn Ferguson

#3. 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.

James Stephens

#4. You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

Rusty Schweickart

#5. Death and Birth are always celebrated the same way in all the cultures irrespective of the country you are born or live in.

Ruchira Khanna

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

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#7. Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

Tom Drury

#8. 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.

Joy Harjo

#9. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Octavio Paz

#10. The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

#11. Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#12. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#13. The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#14. There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Thomas Carlyle

#15. don't fast, I will never go on any pilgrimage, and I drink wine - and what's more, the air that makes it better. To cry out that I'm free, and that God is a question, not an answer, and that I want to meet him alone, at my death as at my birth.

Kamel Daoud

#16. In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.

Joseph Fink

#17. 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.

Rumi

#18. If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

John Aubrey

#19. The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a whole does not exist for me. Only the Other is in possession of the values of the being of a given person.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#20. I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel.

Jack Kerouac

#21. Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.

Andy Summers

#22. Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can't have the same experience.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.

Anthony Liccione

#24. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#25. Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

Zhuangzi

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

Frederick Lenz

#27. Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

Jessica Raine

#29. 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

#30. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

Nhat Hanh

#31. Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Paul Tudor Jones

#32. Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Inspiration

Pema Chodron

#33. 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

#34. From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

Raymond E. Feist

#35. 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.

Mahavira

#36. Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

John Pearson

#37. I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two things we share in common ... one is birth, and we know about that because we've been through it, we understand it, and the other is death.

James Van Praagh

#38. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

#39. Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.

Charlotte Wood

#40. 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.

William S. Burroughs

#41. This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Gautama Buddha

#42. Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#43. 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.

Jacob K. Javits

#44. 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

#45. There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Watts

#46. 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.

Justin Baldoni

#47. 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

#48. There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away. Pg. 155 Undone

Brooke Taylor

#49. We have to dig and experiment and figure out who the hell we are from birth to death, which is super inconvenient, right?

Felicia Day

#50. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#52. Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Kate Forsyth

#53. 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.

Frederic Henry Hedge

#54. life, a blur of birth and death - birth and death being the only two moments of life in which we don't exist.

Will Chancellor

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

Mitch Albom

#56. Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a last consolation. For to die in one world is to be born into another. Let all men hear and remember!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#57. It is hard to have patience with people who say, 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn't matter.

C.S. Lewis

#58. J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay "The Necessity for Ruins." Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption.

Thomas Moore

#59. Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

Joseph Goldstein

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

Swami Vivekananda

#63. The moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It is hard to imagine the moment when you fade back into the vacuum and draw your last breath.

Chloe Thurlow

#64. Just like that - in one apocalyptic moment - simple and beautiful. A birth. But also a kind of death. Like lightning in a storm. In one flash of light, the whole desert was lit, and you could see the universe. That's what she had seen - the universe in the hands of a child feeling the face of a man.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#65. Accept that you are bad and dirty and cheap and should be thrown to the wolves as scrap meat, and must never bear children, for who knows the faces they would be locked behind from birth until death.

Jennifer Lynch

#66. There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

Betty Parsons

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

Jacques Ellul

#68. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]

Guy De Maupassant

#70. When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die ... (90)

Joseph Campbell

#71. Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

Alexander MacLaren

#72. 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.

Temple Grandin

#73. 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.

John Ruskin

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

Stephen Cox

#75. 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

#76. 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.

Dogen

#77. Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity - birth.

Eckhart Tolle

#78. Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory to death; for all their love, parents cannot halt it and in a sense have "given us to death" merely by giving us birth.

Anonymous

#79. There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Jean De La Bruyere

#80. When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Rabindranath Tagore

#81. Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#82. 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.

William Broyles Jr.

#83. The natives believed in the circle of life which consisted of three main functions or transitions in life, the birth, death and rebirth.

Sally May

#84. I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my food prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

Kahlil Gibran

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

Tiffany Baker

#88. A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

Sathya Sai Baba

#89. 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.

Rachel Nichols

#90. 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

#91. 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.

Carol P. Christ

#92. Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#93. How ironic that there always seemed to be more people welcoming your birth and mourning your death than there were throughout your life.

Laurie Bellesheim

#94. And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Jesse Jackson

#97. Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Gustav Meyrink

#98. Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together.

Sandra Dallas

#99. 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.

Rick Riordan

#100. 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.

Jim Bishop