#Birth

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."

"We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries."

"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."

"All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born."

"He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."

"I don’t remember my birth. I guess I got dementia at a young age."

"From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain."

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."

"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"Nothing is born into this world without labor."

"The only sin is the sin of being born"

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story."

"There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away."Pg. 155 Undone"

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

"33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins."