After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
Quotations
Birth
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
Physical birth takes place because of parents, but spiritual birth by sacred soul.
-Jesus Christ
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
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
