Life Cycle Quotes

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us

Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

If millions are born millions must die.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

When you stop growing you start dying.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

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

In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.