“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

“What then remains, but that we still should cryNot to be born, or being born, to die?”

“The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”

“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet with individuals who are untouched, unsullied, by the common grief. We say of them that they have died to the world. They live in the moment, fully, and the radiance which emanates from them is a perpetual song of joy […] like the clown, we go through the motions, forever simulating, forever postponing the grand event- we die struggling to get born. We never were, never are. We are always in the process of becoming. Forever outside”

“We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die.”

“The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.”