Bob Thaves Quotes

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

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.

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

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.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

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

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

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.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

People die, but money never does.

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.

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?

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

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.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.