Ancestor Quote by Chinua Achebe

“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new modality of…

— Mircea Eliade

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

— Orson Welles

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

— Philip Sidney

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death…

— George Saunders

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is big blank with 'birth' before it and 'death' after it. Its upto you as to how you fill it in.

— Vatsal Agrawal

Men is a living being and his body is the only instrucment through which the soul seeks to envolves it personality. At the transition…

— Jesse Joseph

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather,…

— Masao Abe

Birth is the beginning of death

— Thomas Fuller

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new…

— Frederic Henry Hedge

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Birth was the death of him.

— Samuel Beckett