Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Birth
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
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
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"
