Quotes About Rebirth

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.

I feel like I died as a child.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

When Spring has sprung... Spring with it!

I am very sorry, Aidan, but you have been asleep - or dead, depending on your point of view - for three thousand years.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

John Barleycorn got up again,And sore surprised them all.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

With his coming are the dread fires born again. The hills burn, and the land turns sere. The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle. The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. -fragment from The Prophecies of the Drqagon believed translated by N'Delia Basolaine First Maid and Swordfast to Raidhen of Hol Cuchone (circa 400 AB)

And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.

The fall of the Stone will be one of the major proofs that the Dragon has been reborn. May the Stone stand till I am dust.

Limping to the foot of the bed, he lowered himself into the chest there and laid Callandor across his knees, bloody hands resting on the glowing blade. With that in his hands, even one of the Forsaken would fear him. In a moment he would send for Moiraine to Heal his wounds. In a moment he would speak to the Aiel outside, and become the Dragon Reborn again. But for now, he only wanted to sit, and remember a shepherd named Rand al'Thor.

And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker

Don't say that!" Thom drew a deep breath; everybody stared at him now. "That is dangerous talk, stupid talk. The dead can be reborn, or take a living body, and it is not something to speak of lightly.