Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

(Attachment to the fruits of action) binds a person to continual rebirth.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.