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

“2911. It is as natural to die, as to be born.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book.”

Greg Bear book Hull Zero Three

“The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…

“What to do now? How to detach yourself?
With every work that’s born you die a little.”

Primo Levi book Collected Poems

“One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.”

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) American writer

“Perhaps it is a benevolent provision of Nature that we remember more what touches than what pains us.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“A country is not born as a democracy. It evolved and matures into a democracy. We are only in the infant stages of the democracy.”

R. Venkataraman (1910–2009) seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of India

“Societies which inflict pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them as well.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist