Birth was the death of him.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death I can wreak no great changes on the world only small changes for the better I hope in the lives of those I love.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

When life is victorious there is birth when it is thwarted there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Even though people may be well known they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth marriage and death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.