Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Birth
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"
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
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
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
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"
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
