„Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.“

„We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?“

—  Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Fonte: Tuesdays with Morrie

„We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?“

—  Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902

Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)

„At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.“

—  Tom Robbins, livro Jitterbug Perfume

Fonte: Jitterbug Perfume

„It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.“

—  Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008

CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Contexto: It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.

„Translation: I call the beginning of death the whole course of life, beginning with our birth, from which point we commence to die, and each moment of every day brings us nearer to our end.“

—  Stefano Guazzo Italian writer 1530 - 1593

Chiamo principio della morte tutto il corso della vita cominciando al nostro nascimento, dal quale cominciamo a morire, e per momenti di tempo andiamo ogni giorno al nostro fine.
Della Morte, p. 529.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.

„Death, we are told, should be left to God. We do not leave birth to God. We space births. We prevent births. We arrange births. Man should learn to become the lord of death as well as the master of birth.“

—  Leslie Weatherhead English theologian 1893 - 1976

Fonte: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269

„We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.“

—  Joan Didion, livro Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Fonte: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

„A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.“

—  Bolesław Prus, livro The Doll

The Doll

„A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things of which we have thought too much. In his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with India.“

—  Jawaharlal Nehru Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India 1889 - 1964

The Light Has Gone Out (1948)

„What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from… For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.“

—  Terry Brooks, livro A Knight of the Word

A Knight of the Word

„The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.“

—  Shashi Tharoor, livro The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel (1989)

„Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.“

—  Alexander McCall Smith British writer 1948

Love Over Scotland, chapter 102.
The 44 Scotland Street series

„We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.“

—  Abraham Verghese, livro Cutting for Stone

Fonte: Cutting for Stone

„Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.“

—  Fernando Pessoa, livro The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 18.
The Education of the Stoic

„For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.“

—  Jon Kabat-Zinn American academic 1944

Fonte: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

„One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.“

—  Kristin Hannah American writer 1960

Fonte: Firefly Lane

„Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of—what?“

—  Oliver Lodge British physicist 1851 - 1940

Raymond, p. 298 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=340
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

„When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.“

—  Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968

„We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.“

—  Marianne Williamson American writer 1952