“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”

— Marcus Manilius , Astronomica

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.
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Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

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Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer

Chiamo principio della morte tutto il corso della vita cominciando al nostro nascimento, dal quale cominciamo a morire, e per momenti di tempo andiamo ogni giorno al nostro fine.
Della Morte, p. 529.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.

“To be born is to have commenced to die.”

Théophile Gautier Paris

Naître, c'est seulement commencer à mourir.
"L'Horloge", line 24, in Poésies Complètes (Paris: Charpentier, 1845) p. 324; Lewis Nkosi Mating Birds (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1983) p. 46.

“We are born too late to see the beginning, and we did too soon to see the end of many things.”

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) English politician and Viscount

On the Study and Use of History

“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Queen

Source: The Other Queen

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”

Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013) Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan,
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.”

Francis Thompson (1859–1907) British poet

Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 15.

“We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

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.