Born To Die Quotes

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Differences, Intensity, Born

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• I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

  Ronnie Radke

  Live Life, Born, Dies

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• Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.

  Walter Breuning

  People, Dying, Scared

  "World's oldest man dies at 114" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of these two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

  Tim Farrington

  Lying, Heart, Two

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

  Russell M. Nelson

  God, Flower, Heaven

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• We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Sorrow, Shapes, Way

  Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.258, Atlantic Books

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• Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

  Hannah More

  Wisdom, Eye, Blessing

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.112

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, People, Suffering

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• We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

  Yamaga Soko

  Book, Years, Events

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• What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Cry, Born

  "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

  Tanith Lee

  Madness, Born, Things To Do

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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• Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Regret, Soul, Truth Is

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is gray, For I have lost the race I never ran. A rathe December blights my lagging May: And still I am a child, though I be old Time is my debtor for my days untold.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sweet, Children, Sleep

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.13

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  Barnabe Barnes

  Men, Dust, World

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• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

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• I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

  Jessamyn West

  Hate, Creating, Mind

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Pain

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• But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Soul, Guilt

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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