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
Quotations
Birth
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
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"
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
Is there a rebirth or reincarnation? Definitely yes... But according to the law of
nature, if you do not exist at all, then you cannot be 'born'; and if you exist, you
cannot be destroyed.
-Deep Trivedi
Physical birth takes place because of parents, but spiritual birth by sacred soul.
-Jesus Christ
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
