Citas

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. "

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

Jim Morrison

"¡Ay mísero de mí, y ay, infelice!
Apurar, cielos, pretendo,
ya que me tratáis así
qué delito cometí
contra vosotros naciendo;
aunque si nací, ya entiendo
qué delito he cometido.
Bastante causa ha tenido
vuestra justicia y rigor;
pues el delito mayor
del hombre es haber nacido."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño

"LORD ILLINGWORTH : I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but
grows young. That is the comedy of life.

MRS. ALLONBY : And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s
tragedy"

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

"„Jeder Tag ist ein kleines Leben – jedes Erwachen und Aufstehen eine kleine Geburt, jeder frische Morgen eine kleine Jugend, und jedes Zubettgehen und Einschlafen ein kleiner Tod.”
MRS. ALLONBY : And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s
tragedy"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena

"Il faut pleurer les hommes à leur naissance, et non pas à leur mort"

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, Lettres persanes

"My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death."

Walt Whitman, Song of myself