"When you were born the world was..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur
When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.
More by Tupac Shakur
“Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terrorI hate the man in the mirrorCause his reflection makes the pain turn realer”
“Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.”
“With all my fans I got a family again.”
More on Life
“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”
“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”
“With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.”
More on Death
“There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.”
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known”
“maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.”