Born Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

— Josh Billings

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to…

— Judith Viorst

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

— John Hanning Speke

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

— Frederick Leboyer

Despair is infidelity and death.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left. "Ashes…

— J.A. Redmerski

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

— Yogaswami

“I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Despair is part of love.

— Andrew Solomon

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier