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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. -- Bryant H. McGill
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. -- Albert Einstein
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. -- Bodhidharma
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. -- T. S. Eliot
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. -- Joseph Hall
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. -- Charles de Montesquieu
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. -- Bodhidharma
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. -- E. M. Forster
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. -- Desmond Morris
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. -- Horace
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. -- Annie Besant
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. -- Jessica Raine
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. -- Christopher Fry
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. -- Ani DiFranco
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. -- Jennifer Dunn
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
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
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Birth is the beginning of death -- Thomas Fuller
Birth was the death of him. -- Samuel Beckett
From birth to death we are alone ... -- Enid Bagnold
The leading cause of death is birth. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Death is feared as birth is forgotten. -- Douglas Horton
Birth, not death, is the hard loss. -- Louise GluÌ?ck
Death was no less a miracle than birth. -- Stephen King
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance. -- Tom Robbins
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. -- Immanuel Kant
Death is birth into the realm of the spirit. -- Mary T Browne
The birth of science was the death of superstition. -- Thomas Huxley
Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle. -- Alyson Noel
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. -- Khalil Gibran
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. -- Ambrose Bierce
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end. -- Zhuangzi
Your birth may be common, But death must be history. -- Adolf Hitler
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things. -- Thomas Carlyle
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death -- Albert Einstein
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. -- Margaret Millar
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. -- Ambrose Bierce
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. -- Arlo Guthrie
The birth of the mind is the death of the senses -- Dan Millman
Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. -- Tom Robbins
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. -- Charles de Secondat
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. -- Charles de Montesquieu
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. -- Oliver Lodge
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Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death. -- Peter Adamson
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. -- Eckhart Tolle
Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death. -- Javad Alizadeh
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. -- Emile Coue
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops. -- Erich Fromm
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date. -- Jesse Jackson
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life . -- Michel de Montaigne
A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death -- Tiffany Baker
A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death -- Tiffany Baker
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Birth, life, and deathâ?? each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. -- Toni Morrison
Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death. -- Katharine Hepburn
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. -- Isabel Allende
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. -- Diane Ackerman
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. -- Margaret Deland
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. -- T. S. Eliot
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? -- Guru Nanak
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.... -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. -- Ellis Peters
Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. -- Jessica Raine
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. -- Hermann Hesse
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. -- Edward Gibbon
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. -- Edward Young
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. -- Roland Barthes
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. -- Eckhart Tolle
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We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. -- John Desmond Bernal
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, -- Stan Brakhage
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death. -- Stewart Edward White
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. -- Jean Cocteau
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. -- Ram Dass
The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance -- J. K. Rowling
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing -- Christopher Fry
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. -- Jean Cocteau
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. -- Jacques Ellul
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up. -- William S. Burroughs
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. -- Bodhidharma
There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall. -- Jim Crace
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life. -- Lewis Wolpert
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. -- Sorin Cerin
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? -- Mitch Albom
Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. -- Edgar Cayce
Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in. -- Franklin Gillette
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. -- Lorna Luft
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
While we cried at birth, others were rejoicing and while we smile to death, others were crying...irony of life -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." -- Rabindranath Tagore
All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade. -- Marjorie M. Liu
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. -- Mohsin Hamid
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death -- Gore Vidal
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. -- Aldous Huxley
You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. -- Carol P. Christ
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. -- Wendell Berry

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