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Marcus Aurelius2 quotes
Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Forrest Gump1 quote
Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994Herman Melville1 quote
Dies, all dies!
The grass it dies, but in vernal rain
Up it springs and it lives again;
Over and over, again and again
It lives, it dies and it lives again. — Herman Melville · 1891Homer1 quote
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves: the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth-and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. — Homer · 700 BCJohn Greenleaf Whittier1 quote
The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling. — John Greenleaf Whittier · 1847Leonardo da Vinci1 quote
Man and animal are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1508Lucretius1 quote
In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life. — Lucretius · 50 BCMartin Luther King, Jr.1 quote
It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1956Mufasa1 quote
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life. — Mufasa · 1994Rachel Carson1 quote
For all at last returns to the sea...the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951William Shakespeare1 quote
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — William Shakespeare · 1616