A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
“Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.”
La jalousie naît toujours avec l'amour, mais elle ne meurt pas toujours avec lui.
Maxim 361.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
Book IV, line 16. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays (1580), Book I, Chapter 19.
Variant translation: When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
Astronomica
“What then remains but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or, being born, to die?”
The World (1629)
“We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.
“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”
Source: "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
