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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“I come from dying, not from having been born. From having been born I am going.”
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.
Voces (1943)
“It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.”
Joanna Newsom
(1982) American musician
Kingfisher
Have One On Me (2010)
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Antonio Gramsci
(1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist
Loose translation, commonly attributed to Gramsci by Slavoj Žižek, presumably formulation by Žižek (see below).
Presumably a translation from a loose French translation by Gustave Massiah; strict English with cognate terms and glosses:
Le vieux monde se meurt, le nouveau monde tarde à apparaître et dans ce clair-obscur surgissent les monstres
The old world is dying, the new world tardy (slow) to appear and in this chiaroscuro (light-dark) surge (emerge) monsters.
“ Mongo Beti, une conscience noire, africaine, universelle http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, août 2002 ( archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061734/http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration, 2016-03-04)
“Mongo Beti, a Black, African, Universal Conscience”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, August 2002
Collected in: Remember Mongo Beti, Ambroise Kom, 2003, p. 149 https://books.google.com/books?id=6YgdAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Le+vieux+monde+se+meurt,+le+nouveau+monde+tarde+%C3%A0+appara%C3%AEtre+et+dans+ce+clair-obscur+surgissent+les+monstres%22.
Original, with literal English translation (see above):
La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Similar sentiments are widespread in revolutionary rhetoric; see: No, Žižek did not attribute a Goebbels quote to Gramsci http://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/07/03/no-zizek-did-not-attribute-a-goebbels-quote-to-gramsci/, Ross Wolfe, 2015-07-03
Misattributed
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“The dying process begins the minute you are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”
Carol Grace
(1924–2003) American actress
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 80