Who said “Birth was the death of him.”?

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”

“Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.”

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.”

“Words are all we have.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

“The bastard! He doesn't exist!”

“Make sense who may. I switch off.”