Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

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 is a plant that grows out of death.

Death is an absolute marvel.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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

Everything that gets born dies.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

It is natural to die as to be born.

I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

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].

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

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

We die, because we live.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.