Quotes About Birth

It is in the land of dreamers, it is in the land the dreamers dream that dreams of justice and desire are as certain as numbers. It is in the land of insomniacs that justice and desire are dismissed as merely dreams. I was born in the first land and returned to the second: they were one and the same. You know its name.

What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus. You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs. Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio. I can take him anywhere but out.

I've always liked this Nietzsche quote: "You must still have chaos in yourself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." There's a lot to love about that, I think. Not least, personally, as it gives me hope that whatever sprawling, chaotic, nonsensical draft I'm working on might eventually turn out good. In writing as in life.

When we realize that human beings are entering the world constantly and that each being is stamped at the first complete breath with the planetary pattern then in the sky, everyone must necessarily be different from everybody else.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

The premise behind the approach was that our fear of death is a function of our egos, which burden us with a sense of separateness that can become unbearable as we approach death. "We are born into an egoless world," Cohen wrote, "but we live and die imprisoned within ourselves.

Todo arte nuevo, para ser auténtico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artística.

To everything there is a season. There is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to plant seeds, and a time to reap.

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.

En términos de civilización, la inyección sistemática de un sustituto de la hormona del amor en un momento tan fundamental representa uno de los aspectos más amenazantes de la industrialización del nacimiento.

Ahora puedo resumir veinticinco años de investigación de este modo: «Me he dado cuenta de que los seres humanos somos mamíferos. Todos los mamíferos se esconden o se aíslan para dar a luz. Necesitan intimidad. A los humanos les sucede lo mismo. Hay que tener constantemente presente esta necesidad de intimidad».

Die Musik wird aus dem Rauschen geboren: das erste menschliche Lallen, die erste Information im Chaos. Aus seiner Quelle entsprungen, lässt dieser Strom der Arrangements und Kombinationen, der in Melodien und Harmonien zur Sprache hinabfließt, die Negentropie anwachsen.[...]

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn't remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts.

Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.

Likewise, even life on Earth seems to violate the second law, because it takes just nine months to convert hamburgers and french fries into a baby, which truly is a miracle.

We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.

En nuestra tradición esta rebelión representa el nacimiento de un guerrero tolteca: cuando reconocemos el mecanismo al que estamos sometidos y elegimos no creer en él, con lo que iniciamos una guerra interna para alcanzar nuestra libertad personal.

There isn't a single eastern religion," said Berlioz, "in which, as a rule, a chaste virgin doesn't give birth to a god. And without inventing anything new, in exactly the same way, the Christians created their Jesus, who in reality never actually lived. And it's on that the main emphasis needs to be put...

J'ai, outre celle-là, une autre conviction, à savoir qu'un soir maudit, j'eus le malheur de naître.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.