Quotes · Skopia

13 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Circle of life✕clear

Speech · Political speech

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.

1956

★ 6.2

Scripture · Religious literature

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

931 BC

★ 4.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

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

Hamlet · 1616

★ 4.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 4.0

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

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

Meditations · 180

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

For all at last returns to the sea...the beginning and the end.

1951

★ 3.7

The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer · 1847

★ 3.5

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

Works · 1891

★ 3.5

Poem · Epic poem

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.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 2.3

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 2.2

Poem · Philosophical literature

In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life.

On the Nature of Things · 50 BC

★ 2.1

Personal journal

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

1508

★ 2.1

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

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.

The Lion King · 1994

★ 2.0