quotations about birth
Life, birth, blood, doom
The hole in the ground is comin' 'round soon
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
"Life, Birth, Blood, Doom"
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of Life
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
LAUREN DESTEFANO
Fever
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born;
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Auguries of Innocence
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
MADONNA
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
DIANE SETTERFIELD
The Thirteenth Tale
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
TOM ROBBINS
Jitterbug Perfume
Birth is a gateway into the spiritual.
BRYANT CORTRIGHT
Psychotherapy and Spirit
The stork is charged with a lot of things which should be blamed on a lark.
EVAN ESAR
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A natural birth is a manifestation of spontaneous expression and cannot be schooled, urged, or thrust upon a mode of living that is not natural. It requires only a clear channel, a body in health, a mind in understanding, a whole being that is totally open.
MARIA ROSENSTEIN
"The Yoga of Giving Birth," Yoga Journal, Nov. 1975
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die--although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
ERICH FROMM
The Sane Society
Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.
BABA HARI DASS
Everyday Peace: Letters for Life
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
HERMAN HESSE
Demian
When I was born, I did lament and cry,
And now each day doth show the reason why.
RICHARD WATKINS
Flamma Sine Fumo
Blessed indeed are those who were never born to see the sun!
PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA
Epigram
Into the world we come like ships,
Launch'd from the docks, and stocks, and slips,
For fortune fair or fatal!
THOMAS HOOD
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
MAY SARTON
Journal of a Solitude
What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?
ROBERT FROST
Riders
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood