quotations about birth
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of Life
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
MADONNA
attributed, The 2,320 Funniest Quotes
We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.
CONRAD AIKEN
The House of Dust
We die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
AMIN MAALOUF
Orígenes
Birth is as safe as life gets.
HARRIETTE HARTIGAN
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
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
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Interpretation of Dreams
Birth, copulation, and death.
Is this your life?
CARCASS
"This Is Your Life"
He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.
OBERT SKYE
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
MAY SARTON
Journal of a Solitude
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
From the first birth of life
Till our final last breath
You never thought we could make it this far
We don't stop, we keep fighting on
SEPULTURA
"Fighting On"
I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
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
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Everything that came after that first bright moment of birth is like an unbroken chain from which everything we know was given its form and meaning.
BOB ALBA
The Book of Love