Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

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.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

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

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.

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

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

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

We die, because we live.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

A living thing is born.

Life will find a way.

Life - life - let there be life!

You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.