Birth Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.”

— Alan W. Watts

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

“Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange…

— Victoria Aveyard

“At least, when it comes, the black night of death will not frighten a creature still blind from being born. That is some comfort,…

— Maryrose Wood

“All night I was awake with useless sympathy what use is childhood that falls to its death”

— Donald Revell

“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation…

— Benjamin Percy

“All mothers breed dead children. They shall, perhaps, live later. When no longer dead, they are born Not—by coincidence, by choice.”

— Mie Hansson

“To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their…

— H. Rider Haggard

“She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an…

— Tor Udall