T. S. Eliot Quotes

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

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.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

He that begins to live, begins to die.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

We die, because we live.