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
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"
When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
Having attained human birth, which is an open gateway to Brahmn, one who… remains attached to the ties of the world is not fit to be called human.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
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
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
