Born Quote by John Donne

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

— Jeffrey Archer

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

— Anonymous

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of…

— John Donne

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime, and every…

— Anonymous

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

— John Donne

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

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

— Sandra Gulland

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

— William Gilmore Simms

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

— Robert Fulghum

We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she…

— Marcel Proust

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.”

— M.F. Moonzajer