It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is natural to die as to be born.
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?