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"
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.
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
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
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