Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

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

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

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.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its 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.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

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.

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

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.

Birth was the death of him.

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.