“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

“the day you were born, you were born free. That is your privilege.”

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.”

“3330. Man begins to die before he is born.”

“The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it, who are a prey to questioning, and who can accept no given because they were born in consternation.”

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”

“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”

“The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.”