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Quotes About Cycle

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
~ Aldous Huxley
As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
~ Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
~ W. S. Merwin
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
All games contain the idea of death.
~ Jim Morrison
Death was no less a miracle than birth.
~ Stephen King
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.
~ Karel Capek
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ Felicia Hemans
The leading cause of death is birth.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
~ Karen Russell
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
~ Walt Whitman
I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.
~ George Harrison
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
~ Walt Whitman
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
~ Frederick Lenz
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
~ Ovid
death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is
~ Tea Obreht
Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew
~ Unknown
forgiveness alone can halt the cycle of blame and pain, breaking the chain of ungrace.
~ Philip Yancey
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
~ Philip Yancey
A similar cycle has recurred throughout church history. Christians present an attractive counterculture until they become the dominant culture. Then they divert from their mission, join the power structure, and in the process turn society against them. Rejected, they retreat into a minority subculture, only to start the cycle all over again.
~ Philip Yancey