Birth Quote by Mark Twain

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the…

— Gregg Allman

When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

— Margaret Mead

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the Thou shouldst not grieve.

— Bhagavad Gita

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

— Aaron Eckhart

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

— Charles de Secondat

“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and…

— Mitch Albom

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

— Jon Richardson

Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us.…

— Anonymous

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…

— Ambrose Bierce

You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really…

— Jules Furthman