quotations about birth
Do you count your birthdays thankfully?
HORACE
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Epistles
Birth is far out, man, and it's a real groove if you give it together. Do the birthdance together, man, together. All you real people, just get out there and do your thing, cause that's what birth is, like, it's doing your thing. And you know it.
UNKNOWN
Playgirl, 1977
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
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of Life
Blessed indeed are those who were never born to see the sun!
PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA
Epigram
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
MADONNA
attributed, The 2,320 Funniest Quotes
Birth is a rite of passage and by the end of it you've been through it together and you're in relationship to the baby. The baby is what comes at the end of the process of giving birth, and I think the more connected I am with the birth, the more connected I am with the baby.
EDWARDS
attributed, Risk and Choice in Maternity Care
Birth, copulation, and death.
Is this your life?
CARCASS
"This Is Your Life"
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
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"
Birth and death--what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
ROHINTON MISTRY
A Fine Balance
Zippin' up my boots
Goin' back to my roots
To the place of my birth
Back down to earth
RICHIE HAVENS
"Going Back to My Roots", Connections
From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
E.B. WHITE
Charlotte's Web
Everyone who has had to pay the costs of childbirth knows that man may be born equal, but certainly not free.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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