Born Quotes

“I was born not to die but to live and never born.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck, even your hair—they shouldn’t look this way. They’ve been elongated by their constant attempts to reach out and anchor to anything at all on the vast plaza that is the world.”
― Esther Yi, Y/N

“Once you’re born, you enter a world of risk. It’s part of life and what makes life exciting. There’s a lot to climbing besides the obvious, such as dealing with fear. … Life is not about the situation but how we deal with it.”
― Kitty Calhoun

“When life is born onto this planet, its purpose isn't defined, nor is it written.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Where the Pandemic Started

“From the ashes of her anger a new creature was born, creating itself from the cinders and dust. A feeling that fell between terror and doubt, between chaos and logic.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I would much prefer to see endings as the womb within which beginnings are born.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t talk to me about the stuff of compromise and mediocrity and all other such travesties. For these are the things that we do so that we might never be born into the life into which we were born.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A leader is not born, teachers make one.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“This is not where I was meant to be. Born to the wrong house, by a stroke of misfortune. The girls here have it all. Men in whorehouses exist only to serve. We are their guards, tailors, cooks and their musicians. Forever in the shadows. If only I could be a woman. With soft hands, big breasts and long hair. To have men fawn all over me, to see them rise and fall. Alas, but all I have is small feet.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“Isn’t it odd that we can be born but never live?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being born might not have been a choice. However, living is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To encourage LeBron to persevere, I told him about my belief that great basketball shooters, like great golfers and great baseball hitters, are for the most part made rather than born.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“The one commonality was encouragement, a lot of encouragement. In each case, there was a parent or close relative who rewarded any display of talent, and ignored or punished the opposite. Prodigies, it seemed, were made, not born.”
― Steven Kotler

“She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.”
― Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen

“If solution is to die,
to be born again,
then
Death is the answer.”
― Ashish Saha, my, self.

“We are born, we grow, we have kids, we age and we die: Change is life.”
― Steven Magee

“Discovery is born from failure.”
― Steven Magee

“Born to be!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nothing can die that was robbed of the opportunity to be born. Yet is that not a death in and of itself?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Comfort is not the place where great dreams die. Rather, it is the place where they were never given the chance to be born.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We come from dirt and we return to dirt.”
― Steven Magee

“It is over the second we are born. The very second we are born we start dying and to decay… by choosing to live we also choose to die one day…”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“You are born the day you find the purpose of your life. Before that, you just exist.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Humans are born not ignorant since crying immediately after birth is awareness of nature, and it is the start of knowledge, whereas stupidity is by nature, not by education.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell

Humans are born not ignorant since crying immediately after birth is awareness of nature, and it is the start of knowledge, whereas stupidity is by nature, not by education.
- Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“A right to be possessed her, as if she’d just finished crying after being born. How? How to stretch birth out for a whole lifetime?”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“You were not born into sin, you were born into a lie and the only way to stop that lie is not to pass it on to your kids.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The best scenario for a genius to be born is a suburban area, not choc-a-bloc a place, for wits prefer quietness.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Looking For Your Tribe: Intellectual Poems

“Many wouldn't dare come into the world if they had known what they would be born into.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“There were too many theories, and none of them seemed to be based in any kind of reality. Most seemed to be struck on the idea that Extraordinaries were born and not made. If that were the case, Nick was screwed even before he got started. And since that wouldn't do, he chose not to believe it. Besides, it smacked of pure-blood bullshit, and Nick wasn't here for that at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries