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
Quotations
Birth
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
