„We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.“

— Emil M. Cioran
„We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?“
— Socrates
„He not busy being born is busy dying.“
— Bob Dylan
„For everything we gain we lose something.“
— John C. Maxwell
„We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.“
— Erich Maria Remarque