A time to be born and a time to die

1. A phrase from the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes. The passage begins, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven” — that is, there is a right moment for all actions.

Example Sentences

“A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

From Washington Post

We know, instinctively, there is a time to be born and a time to die.

From Washington Post

As humans, he said, there is a “time to be born and a time to die” and New Year’s also is a time to reflect on our mortality, “the end of the path of life.”

From Time

Christianity teaches that things of this world have a start and finish; as the verses go in Ecclesiastes, “a time to be born and a time to die.”

From New York Times

Live still to die, that by death you may purchase eternal life, and remember how Methuselah, who, as we read in the Scriptures, was the longest liver that was of a man, died at the last; for, as the Preacher saith, there is a time to be born and a time to die; and the day of death is better than the day of our birth.—Yours, as the Lord knoweth, as a friend, Jane Dudley.

From Project Gutenberg