Top 1200 Birth And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

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

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

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

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

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

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.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

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.

Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. In the same way, women's freedom to give birth at home is a political decision, an assertion of determination to reclaim the experience of birth. Birth at home is about changing society.

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

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

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Acquaintance with the human kingdom is limited: between death and a new birth - and this begins immediately or soon after death - the soul has contact and can make links only with those human souls, whether still living on earth or in yonder world, with whom he has already been karmically connected on earth in the last or in an earlier incarnation.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

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

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge "life" and "death" are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss.

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

Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.