Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between.

There are only three events in a man's life birth life and death he is not conscious of being born he dies in pain and he forgets to live.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth that's the American Cycle. You know awakening tragic horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story again and again.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death appearing and disappearing at will.

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

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

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born to live and to die. He is not conscious of his birth he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Birth was the death of him.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death I can wreak no great changes on the world only small changes for the better I hope in the lives of those I love.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.

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

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

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

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.

Even though people may be well known they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth marriage and death.

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