quotations about birth
Into the world we come like ships,
Launch'd from the docks, and stocks, and slips,
For fortune fair or fatal!
THOMAS HOOD
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Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg
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 stork is charged with a lot of things which should be blamed on a lark.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
Blessed indeed are those who were never born to see the sun!
PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA
Epigram
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
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
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
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
Birth, copulation, and death.
Is this your life?
CARCASS
"This Is Your Life"
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"
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
I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
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
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
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
E.B. WHITE
Charlotte's Web
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
ADRIENNE RICH
Of Woman Born
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