Quotes About Birth

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born and have tasted life and declare it so good that is merits being duplicated.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a myth, that genesis looks to me like a conversion story: Saul becoming Paul; the novelist being born from the ruins of his lyrical world.

Tener un hijo significa manifestar que se está de acuerdo con el hombre. Si tengo un hijo, es como si dijera: He nacido, he experimentado la vida y he comprobado que es tan buena que merece ser repetida.

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

I ponovno ga vidim onako kako sam ga vidio na samom po?etku romana. Stoji kraj prozora i gleda preko dvorišta u zid stambene zgrade. To je slika iz koje se rodio. Kao što sam rekao, likovi se ne ra?aju kao živi ljudi iz maj?inog tijela, ve? iz situacije, re?enice, metafora u kojoj je kao u orahovoj ljusci skrivena neka osnovna ljudska mogu?nost, mogu?nost o kojoj autor misli da je još nitko nije otkrio ili da o njoj još nitko ništa bitno nije rekao.

Os seres perfeitos engendram quanto muito um único filho, e os melhores, como tu, decidem simplesmente não procriar. É um desastre. E eu passo o tempo sonhando com um universo em que o homem não viesse ao mundo para viver entre estranhos, mas sim entre os seus irmãos.

O humor não é uma prática imemorial do homem; é uma invenção ligada ao nascimento do romance. O humor, portanto, não é o riso, a troça, a sátira, mas uma espécie particular de cómico (...)

Een kind hebben betekent zich absoluut uitspreken voor de mens. Als ik een kind heb, dan is het alsof ik zou zeggen: Ik ben geboren, ik heb het leven geproefd en ben er achter gekomen dat het goed genoeg is en dat het verdient herhaald te worden.

A single metaphor can give birth to love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Tener un hijo significa que se está absolutamente de acuerdo con el hombre. Si tengo un hijo, es como si dijera: He nacido, he experimentado la vida y he comprobado que es tan buena que merece ser repetida. -¿Y usted no cree que la vida sea buena? -preguntó Bertlef. Jakub procuró hablar con precisión y dijo con cautela: -Lo único que sé es que nunca podría decir con profunda convicción: El hombre es un ser magnífico y quiero repetirlo.

Como já disse os personagens não nascem de um corpo materno, como os seres vivos, mas de uma situação, uma frase, uma metáfora que contém em embrião uma possibilidade humana fundamental que o autor imagina não ter sido ainda descoberta, ou sobre a qual nada ainda foi dito de essencial.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

I've even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.