Life's Cycle Quotes

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Time itself comes in drops.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over.

Life is a beautiful thing, but a lot of it, it kind of replicates itself.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

One day, those who play have to leave the stage.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.