Quotes About Birth

Je sais que ma naissance est un hasard, un accident risible, et cependant, dès que Je m'oublie, Je me comporte comme si elle était un évènement capital, indispensable à la marche et à l'équilibre du monde

Ceea ce caut în fond nu este mântuirea, ci mângâierea, mai mult: o vorb?(una singur?!) de mângâiere; ÅŸi tocmai asta nu g?sesc niciunde. ... Iat? starea celui n?scut sub zodia tristeÅ£ii f?r? leac.

celui que ne connaît point l'ennui se trouve encore à l'enfance du monde, où les âges attendaient de naître

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we are separated.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.

In the 'Gospel According to the Egyptians,' Jesus proclaims: 'Men will be the victims of death so long as women give birth.' And he specifies: 'I am come to destroy the works of woman.' When we frequent the extreme truths of the Gnostics, we should like to go, if possible, still further, to say something never said, which petrifies or pulverizes history, something out of a cosmic Neronianism, out of a madness on the scale of matter.

In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left — ignorant how to react — with a foolish grin.

I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.

De cierto tipo de vigilias se desprende el cuestionar el nacimiento.

Se, no momento de nosso nascimento, fôssemos tão conscientes como o somos ao sair da adolescência, é mais do que provável que aos cinco anos o suicídio fosse um fenômeno habitual ou mesmo uma questão de honorabilidade. Mas despertamos tarde demais: temos contra nós os anos fecundados unicamente pela presença dos instintos, que devem ficar estupefatos com as conclusões a que conduzem nossas meditações e decepções.

We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

The roads to heaven have been worn smooth by all the erring instincts. Indeed, heaven was born of these errors.

The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.

We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we were separated.

Birth and chain are synonyms. To see the light of day, to see shackles . . .

t is idle to expect an ordinary man born in the purple to have greater genius than an extraordinary man born out of the purple; to expect a man whose place has always been fixed to have a better judgment than one who has lived by his judgment; to expect a man whose career will be the same whether he is discreet or whether he is indiscreet to have the nice discretion of one who has risen by his wisdom, who will fall if he ceases to be wise.

First as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul- the central part where God is- held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as the perfect child, the Christ consciousness.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born.

Were the universe, for example, like a huge impervious reservoir of some simple gas, where nothing rested but nothing changed, where amid all the hurry and bustle of colliding atoms no new thing was ever born, nor any old thing ever perished, we might find in it admirable illustrations of natural law, but no hints, so far as I can see, of purpose or design. Nor is the case really mended if, instead of thus artificially simplifying inanimate nature, we consider it in all its concrete complexity.

I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong.

Midwives see birth as a miracle and only mess with it if there's a problem; doctors see birth as a problem and if they don't mess with it, it's a miracle!

If a woman is physically active during labor, her baby is constantly repositioning in the womb, readjusting and descending, preparing for the birth. Requiring a woman to be in bed during any part of her labor and decreasing her ability to move increases the need for interventions.