“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual.”
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
Source: Reincarnation & Karma
“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
— Stephen King, book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep
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Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) British physicist
Raymond, p. 298 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=340 <br class="br">Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place, as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
“I hope that death contains
less than this.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“And in an infinite regress:
Tell me, why is the pain of birth
lighter borne than the pain of death?”
Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician
Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)
“Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World.”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
Letter from Peking (Summer 1940), quoted in The Last European War : September 1939/December 1941 (1976) by John Lukacs, p. 515
Context: Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World. The scandal for you, is that England and France should have come to this tragedy because they have sincerely tried the road of peace. But did they not precisely make a mistake on the true meaning of "peace"? Peace cannot mean anything but a HIGHER PROCESS OF CONQUEST. … The world is bound to belong to its most active elements. … Just now, the Germans deserve to win because, however bad or mixed is their spirit, they have more spirit than the rest of the world. It is easy to criticize and despise the fifth column. But no spiritual aims or energy will ever succeed, or even deserve to succeed, unless it is able to spread and keep spreading a fifth column.
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269
