“For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.”

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“Life is a journey; we board an express train at birth and head for the unavoidable destination of death. The scenery drifts by, and the only meaningful thing we can do is to be good and kind to our fellow passengers.”

Cheng Yen (1937) Taiwanese Buddhist nun

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

“It would be deemed foolish to repay a spiritual separation that Adam and Eve committed, with the death of the body only.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“And I will tell you something else: there is no birth of all mortal things, nor any end in wretched death, but only a mixing and dissolution of mixtures; 'birth' is so called on the part of mankind.”

Empedocles book On Nature

“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru