#birth

The event happened on my birthday. I don’t remember the date, I only know it was my birthday because there was no cake or presents.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cake #event #forget #memory #presents

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

— E.B. White

#death #life #death

The phoenix must burn to emerge. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#failure #rebirth #death

The only sin is the sin of being born ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#death #sin #death

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#death #death

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #grieving #loss #stillbirth #death

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#death #life #death

Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and Michael can go.”  Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn’t let him die. ↗

— Willow Cross

#death #liz #michael #the-dark-gifts #vampire

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#death #life #death

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning... ↗

— Rosy Cole

#great-quotes #nature #poetry #rebirth #rejuvenation