Top 21 I Never Asked To Be Born Quotes
#1. I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals ... I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Amir Mohamed
#2. Because I am well read, I know what a terrible cliche it is to shout, "I *hate* you. I never *asked* to be born," so I refrain.
Caitlin Moran
#3. Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. Autumn
The passion
Is still flourishing in the branches
Yellow funny and daring red
The sun warms even in the days
Where the fog
Stubbornly in the morning
From a distance
A woodpecker knocks
Impermanence
Is the enemy of beauty
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#5. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
Jon Scieszka
#6. Her life had been mapped out before she was even born, but destiny wasn't to blame. She was just one of those people who never have to decide which way to go in life. She just went where it led, no questions asked.
Walt Cessna
#7. What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.
Ian Svenonius
#8. Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. "What if your eternity doesn't start when you die?" he asked carefully. "What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?"
I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on.
Angela Corbett
#9. I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.
Leonard Nimoy
#10. Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
Kevin O'Leary
#11. Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
#12. Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
Milan Kundera
#13. Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
W.P. Kinsella
#14. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
#15. I'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.
Tahereh Mafi
#16. Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
Lynda Williams
#18. We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.
Neil Postman
#20. It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.
Carson McCullers
#21. If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
Beeban Kidron
