We Are Born To Die Quotes

#1. Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

Frederick Lenz

#2. We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

Yamaga Soko

#3. They're going to die eventually. We are born to die.

K.M. Shea

#4. I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

Ronnie Radke

#5. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

Tim Farrington

#6. If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born

Hermann Hesse

#7. There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

Bill Crawford

#8. We never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestation.

John Green

#9. We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Zhuangzi

#10. We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Dawn Fraser

#11. Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.

Marianne Williamson

#12. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.

Oscar De La Renta

#13. We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?'

Micheal Mac Liammoir

#14. Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.

Mitch Albom

#15. In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

Albert Camus

#16. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Isabel Allende

#17. We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

Gautama Buddha

#18. We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Bret Harte

#19. We all begin to die from the moment we are born. Some do it faster than others. All we can do is enjoy our lives.

Sidney Rosen

#20. ...but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man- 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. Something will come of it in the Milky Ways of eternity stretching in from of all our phantom unjuandiced eyes, friends.

Jack Kerouac

#21. We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Tennessee Williams

#22. Men are born to strive and suffer. Our woes only vanish when we die.

George R R Martin

#23. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

#24. Friday, July 7, 1865
It is time then to write the last words that I shall ever write and close the book. I was born to die, as are we all. The end is there, held within the beginning.

Pamela Redford Russell

#25. There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Roger Ebert

#26. Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

Stanley Hauerwas

#27. We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Mitch Albom

#28. Between the moment we are born and the moment we die, life is what we do not to get bored.

Ben Tolosa

#29. We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Susan Meissner

#30. That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.

Jose Saramago

#31. Her face was a stranger's face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

Peter S. Beagle

#32. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Frank Miller

#33. When we die ... we fall asleep, and are immersed in a dream state.However,when we are born, the ideal is to come out of the dream state and into full-waking consciousness.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#34. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.

L.J.Smith

#35. On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.

Ernesto Sabato

#36. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Erich Fromm

#37. 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

#38. Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.

Robin Wasserman

#39. We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Douglas Coupland

#40. Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gary Gilmore

#41. We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.

Saint Joseph

#42. We all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

Henri Nouwen

#43. I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

Yvon Chouinard

#44. We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Corliss Lamont

#45. We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#46. We are all born to die - the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

Gina Lollobrigida

#47. We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

#49. The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Erich Fromm

#50. In fact, Shakespeare was right when he said 'twice a babe once a man'. We are born into the world as helpless, weak infants, and some of us end our lives as vulnerable, frail adults, unable to speak coherently, or do even the simplest tasks.

George Korankye

#51. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Annie Lennox

#52. From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

Janne Teller

#53. Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

David Gemmell

#54. Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

Rebecca Stead

#55. There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Dan Hill