To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Birth
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
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
