It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read more

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as read more

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt read more

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving read more

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence