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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

— Richard Dawkins

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

— Hunter Hayes

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

— Koichi Tanaka

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

— Joy Page

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

— David Cronenberg

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

— Thornton Wilder

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

— Buddha

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

— Oscar Wilde

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

— Katharine Whitehorn

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

— Jack Kevorkian

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

— Guru Nanak