To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Birth
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
Physical birth takes place because of parents, but spiritual birth by sacred soul.
-Jesus Christ
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adyashanti"
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
-Gabriel García Márquez
"Love in the Time of Cholera"
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
