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"
Quotations
Birth
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3"
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
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
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
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"
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"
