“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
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Reply in the Senate to William H. Seward (29 February 1860), Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol. As quoted in The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 6, pp. 277–84. Transcribed from the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 916–18.
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Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Raymond, p. 298 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=340
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Sir Thomas More, Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (October 1995), p. 3

“There is no "mid" about it. Lifea crisis from the cradle to the grave.”
Source: How to Make Friends with Demons