Paul Harvey Quotes

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

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

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

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

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.

Death is an absolute marvel.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

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.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

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.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.