"My mother groan'd, my father wept
Into the dangerous world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud."
- WILLIAM BLAKE, Infant Sorrow

"Being born, we die; our end is consequent on our beginning." - MARCUS MANILIUS, Astronomica

"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."
- SHAKESPEARE, King Lear

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar."
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Intimations of Immortality

"For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'], 2:27 (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna