“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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“How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!”
O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
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Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
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“Life is a space between two illusions: Birth and Death…”
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
ESOF (2010).
“Manners are easy," said Coningsby, "and life is hard.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book 3, Chap. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844)
“The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I