Born Quotes

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer. If I took into account only force, and […]

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

There’s one born every minute.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into […]

I wept when I was born and every day explains why.

The history of the world and its peoples in three words: born, troubled, died.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

On the day that you were born, The angels came together And decided to create a dream come true.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. When we are born, we cry, that we are […]