quotations about birth
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
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Egeria
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
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Blessed indeed are those who were never born to see the sun!
PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA
Epigram
Do you count your birthdays thankfully?
HORACE
Epistles
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
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
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
MADONNA
attributed, The 2,320 Funniest Quotes
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
Birth, copulation, and death.
Is this your life?
CARCASS
"This Is Your Life"
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of 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"
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
I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
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
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
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
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
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