Margaret Mead 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.

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.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

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

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?