Betty Parsons Quotes

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

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.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.