Death is feared as birth is forgotten. – Douglas Horton
The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living. – Arlo Guthrie
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. – Bryant H. McGill
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. – T. S. Eliot
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. – Deepak Chopra
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. – Joseph Hall
A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them. – William Wrigley, Jr.
“Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.” – William Shakespeare
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. – Sathya Sai Baba
No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier. – Amos Oz
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
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity. – Clarence Darrow
Maura had decided sometime before Blue’s birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks. – Maggie Stiefvater
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity. – George Santayana
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again. – Gautama Buddha
