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
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
