Lauren DeStefano Quotes

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

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.

I've been born, and once is enough.

‎ 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.

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

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

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

This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

Live how we can, yet die we must.