Gavin Newsom Quotes

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

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

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Free I was born, have lived, and will die.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

We die, because we live.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

In fact living is dying.