Guy de Maupassant Quotes

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.

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.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

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

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

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.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

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.

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.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

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.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

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

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.