Life Cycle Quotes

“I am born as the sun,
But then turn into the moon,
As my blonde hairs turn
Grayish-white and fall to
The ground,
Only to be buried again,
Then to be born again,
Into a thousand suns
And a thousand moons.


HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION by Suzy Kassem
Copyright 1993-1994 - A SPRING FOR WISDOM”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

“I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting one’s eyes to the overwhelming multitude of facts, the drama of a number of mighty Cultures, each springing with primitive strength from the soil of a mother-region to which it remains firmly bound throughout it’s whole life-cycle; each stamping its material, its mankind, in its own image; each having its own idea, its own passions, its own life, will and feelings, its own death. Here indeed are colours, lights, movements, that no intellectual eye has yet discovered.

Here the Cultures, peoples, languages, truths, gods, landscapes bloom and age as the oaks and the pines, the blossoms, twigs and leaves - but there is no ageing “Mankind.” Each Culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, one physics, but many, each in the deepest essence different from the others, each limited in duration and self-contained, just as each species of plant has its peculiar blossom or fruit, its special type of growth and decline.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

“He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight -- every second of every day has its own magic. He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector

“A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.”
― J.R. Rim

“We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.”
― Carolyn Kizer

“We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.
And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.



Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The tide of hope approaches us and recedes from us as we stand on the mortal shore - some of us wait for it to arrive, some chase after it, but we all vanish into the sunset and our footprints in the sand fade in time. The feet of infants replace ours, and the dance of the tide commences anew.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Birth and death are really illusions. There really is no beginning and there is no end. Before this life, we were alive in our parents and before that we were alive in our grandparents and our ancestors. One thing gets passed on to another. One form changes to another.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.”
― Na'ama Yehuda, Emilia

“Humans like to consider everything as linear, when in reality everything is cyclic.

They are obsessed with straight lines. Straight roads, straight houses, straight pieces of steel, glass, and timber. Straight cut diamonds. Let’s get straight to the point. Be straight with me. I am straight, not gay.

And this is how they see their lives. A linear journey, along the road of life. That is where expressions such as Highway to Hell come from.

But what about other expressions, such as the life cycle, the cycle of nature, and the weather cycle?

Because of this obsession with straight lines, they view history and historical events, as existing way back along an imaginary path, one they are sure they are far away from. Like watching a fading wake from a ship.

So when they look at the religious wars, for example, the Christians versus the Muslims, the rise and fall of Empires, democracies and dictatorships, they seem blind when comparing present day situations with those of the past.

The majority of humans see evolution as a race along a straight race track, a race they are winning by a long margin, yet they are afraid to ever slow down, in case other life catches them.

If they did slow down long enough, they may observe that the track is actually cyclic.”
― Robert Black

“Do not be disheartened if you find yourself amidst grief because all things pass, and this will too. Rather be glad because joyful days will soon envelope you.”
― Sushil Rungta

“Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever."

AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR”
― Tim I. Gurung, Afterlife

“Oh, why is man not immortal? he thinks. Why brain centers and convolutions, why sight, speech, self-awareness, genius, if it is all doomed to sink into the ground and in the final end to cool down along with the earth’s crust and then whirl without sense or purpose, for millions of years, with the earth around the sun? For that cooling down and whirling around there was no need at all to bring man out of non-being, along to other his lofty, almost divine reason, and then, as if in mockery, turn him into clay. The life cycle! But what cowardice to comfort oneself with this surrogate of immortality! The unconscious processes that occur in nature are even lower than human stupidity, for in stupidity there is still consciousness and will, while in these processes there is nothing. Only a coward whose fear of death is greater than his dignity can comfort himself with the thought that in time his body will live in grass, a stone, a toad... To see one's own immortality in the life cycle is as strange as to prophesy a brilliant future to the case after the costly violin has been broken and made useless.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“Our everyday life is the manifestation of the same riot where we started and ended yesterday”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Gardens remind us to be patient and humble because that’s what they are. They have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. They trust implicitly that they will be cared for as part of the cycle of nature. They give so much, yet they are unaware of their gift. They have no perception of themselves. They treat all of their inhabitants, of every type and form, as sacred and worthy. They surrender themselves to the moment with flawless confidence and, when it is called for, with the unmarred hope of renewal.”
― Donna Goddard, Together

“Years come n go as we age,
Green is the youth, the fresh,
With time the green beckons
shade of gold, the golden era,
Alas! Nothing lasts forever,
Brown is the end for the leaf,
So is life for even the mighty,
That what begins has to end,
Gratifying what ends, begins
again for a new life, old love.
Generation to generation, Amen!”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“The quiet regrowth of a forest,
fertilized only by its own burnt flesh,
is what I think of
when I think of survival.
When we are able to look death in the face
and prosper because of it, and not just despite it,
we prove that to live is to contradict.”
― Belle Townsend

“Goddess knows, what it is in the depths of our souls. As a river shall flow, our directions unfold. Goddess knows, the birth as the death opens our souls to divinity within our sacred whole.”
― Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

“Sometimes we reach a dead end.
In that case, start again.”
― Felisa Tan

“Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Perhaps 'defective' is a middle-aged person's default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off. Except the men I meet seem to go adolescent, adolescent, adolescent, old, with no ripe bit, no wise bit, no emotional maturity before they wither.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“Time is the running momentum,
love is the flowing of emotion,
in which both are correlated.
In every beat of your heart
and impulses of the brain,
life evolved thru a cycle.
The time framed the life,
and be fulfilled by love.
And love gives life to all creations, in a period of time.”
― Lorena Tamayo Castillo

“Neither birth nor deah, is the beginning or end; it’s the cycle of life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“Every technology has its life cycle, and missing its timely adaptation affects the longevity of every company. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Avoiding or delaying adaptation to changes will only slow down the company’s evolution process. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The earlier a company adopts new technology, the more comfortable its people will be in adapting to the next level of advanced technology.  ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The Cycle's Whisper by Stewart Stafford

A crisp mountain breeze,
Whispers on verdant meadows,
In the starlings' murmuration,
Bodies flutter as the wind blows.

River salmon leap upstream,
To the places of their siring,
All the tests of life in the flesh,
With thrashing bodies expiring.

Starving bears lie in wait to
Shorten the fading quest,
Or a moribund swim home,
To a watery boneyard's rest.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“None of Lord Trimurti is vegetarian because the life cycle organized by them includes non-vegetarian.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Back to earth, to plants, to air
flow the tiny particles
that were once a fox.”
― Isabel Thomas, Fox: A Circle of Life Story