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Quotes About Rebirth

Death is the beginning of something.
~ Edith Piaf
Devout Buddhists believe in sonam—an accounting of righteous deeds that, when large enough, enables one to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering.
~ Jon Krakauer
escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering.
~ Jon Krakauer
He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall a short time ago. Pieces of the man he'd been were jumbled up with the new guy, the lost soul.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I just couldn't be dead any longer.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is still inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In my dream, spring came after summer, came after fall, came after winter, came after spring.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is possible again." It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.
~ Jonathan Weiner
Even drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.
~ Jonathan Weiner
If I could live again - I will travel light, If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the beginning of spring till the end of autumn, I'll ride more carts, I'll watch more sunrises...
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I don't want to continue being Jorge Luis Borges; I want to be someone else. I hope that my death will be total; I hope to die in body and soul.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But again the world has been spared. Light romans the streets inventing dirty colours And with a certain remorse For my complicity in the day's rebirth I ask my house to exist
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But again the world has been spared. Light roams the streets inventing dirty colours And with a certain remorse For my complicity in the day's rebirth I ask my house to exist
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come
~ Joseph Campbell
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, "always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.
~ Joseph Campbell
Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...
~ Joseph Campbell
Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.
~ Joseph Campbell
Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come:
~ Joseph Campbell
The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and eternity come together.
~ Joseph Campbell
The dead are buried to be born again, and the cycles of the plant world become models for the myths and rituals of mankind.
~ Joseph Campbell
She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.
~ A.A. Milne
How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied. 'You mean to die?' asked Pooh. 'Yes and now,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
~ A.A. Milne