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"
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
