Asks Quote by Corliss Lamont

“One does not ask to be born, one wills it.”

— VD

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of…

— Joseph Epstein

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born…

— Studs Terkel

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard. Kinda.

— Lil B

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we…

— Erich Fromm

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

— Ajahn Chah

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we…

— Erich Fromm

“The process of exiting life through death is the same as our existence through birth. They are both not our choices to make.”

— Ramona Matta

You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.

— Frederick Lenz