Birth And Death Quotes

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Death, Moving, Two

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• Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

  Alyson Noel

  Birth, Cycles

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• Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Life, Birth

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.33, Bantam

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Lying, Worry, Birth

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• 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

  Events, Birth, Contemplation

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• The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, Fabric, Birth

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• The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Children, Fall

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• Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

  Desmond Morris

  Life, Journey, Toys

  In 'Sunday Express' 3 November 1991

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• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Different, Birth

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 35 (1927)

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

  Khalil Gibran

  Birthday, Death, Expression

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Buddhist, Autumn, Clouds

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Birth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2244, Manonmani Publishers

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• From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

  Ayya Khema

  Feelings, Birth, Reactions

  Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Death, God, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.52, Discovery House

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• Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Knowing, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Birth

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• It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, One Day, Birth

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  Horace

  Life, World, Birth

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• Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

  Alan Watts

  Would Be, World, Birth

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.61, Souvenir Press

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• When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

  Rajneesh

  Being Alone, Circles, Eternal Love

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