Ovid Quote

What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.


Metamorphoses: Books ix-xv (ed. 1939)


What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.