Discovering the world Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Why, yes, the mo­ment you’re born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.”

— Philip Pullman

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?,” I now put the same…

— Emil Cioran

“Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.”

— Keith Donohue

“I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and…

— Boris Pasternak

“One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born…

— Dan Pearce

“Some people were born just so they could be buried; his mother was like that, and he’d always”

— Donald Ray Pollock

“I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.”

— Alexandra Stoddard

“He was born as you see him-happy with the world and his circumstances. Do we all not wish such a life?”

— Sharon E. McKay

“...most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig…

— Valerie Martin

“And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we…

— Julene Bair

“For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost…

— John Milton