Born Quote by Gary Yourofsky

If to be born was only required to be alive I would thankfully commemorate the God.

— Voeun Tivea

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

— Michel de Montaigne

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty…

— Thornton Wilder

“We are sentenced to die the day we are born.”

— Anonymous

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow…

— Anton Chekhov

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

— Petrarch

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from…

— Richard Dawkins

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our…

— Seneca the Younger

So you were born, and that was a good day. Some day you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in the between,…

— Tomas Kalnoky

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

— Janette Turner Hospital