BIRTH QUOTES III

quotations about birth

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


Blessed indeed are those who were never born to see the sun!

PHILIPPUS OF THESSALONICA

Epigram


When I was born, I did lament and cry,
And now each day doth show the reason why.

RICHARD WATKINS

Flamma Sine Fumo


We die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

AMIN MAALOUF

Orígenes


What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?

ROBERT FROST

Riders


Birth is as safe as life gets.

HARRIETTE HARTIGAN

attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time


The stork is charged with a lot of things which should be blamed on a lark.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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


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, 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


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


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


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


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"


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


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


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


I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

Love for Love


After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

E.B. WHITE

Charlotte's Web