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What Then Remains But That We Still Should Cry For Being Born, And, Being Born, To Die?
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What then remains but that we still should cry
For being born, and, being born, to die?
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
-- The World
Related:
We start to die the minute we are born.
He who is not busy being born, is busy dying.
The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Becke
We are born crying, live complaining, die disappointed.
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form.
The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same....
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. -- George Meredith
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And, born in bed, in bed we die.
The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe. -- Isaac de Benserade (1612-1691)...
I was born and I shall die, that is all that should concern the general public.