This existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und

Prefer the afterlife is better than this one. Never let this life is better than next one. - Buddha

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.