quotations about birth
Life, birth, blood, doom
The hole in the ground is comin' 'round soon
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
"Life, Birth, Blood, Doom"
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
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
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
TOM ROBBINS
Jitterbug Perfume
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
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
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
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?
ROBERT FROST
Riders
I had a Jewish delivery. They knock you out with the first pain and wake you up when the hairdresser shows.
JOAN RIVERS
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Humor
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
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"
Birth is a gateway into the spiritual.
BRYANT CORTRIGHT
Psychotherapy and Spirit
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
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
Egeria
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
When I was born, I did lament and cry,
And now each day doth show the reason why.
RICHARD WATKINS
Flamma Sine Fumo
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
PHILIP SIDNEY
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney