Quotes About Birth

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters

A soul, if such a thing exists at all, doesn't filter into you at birth through your mother's umbilical cord. Souls come from the people who shape you as you grow.

Believe me: if you are told that some experience is going to hurt, it will hurt. Much of pain is in the mind, and when a woman absorbs the idea that the act of giving birth is excruciatingly painful—when she gets this information from her mother, her sisters, her married friends, and her physician—that woman has been mentally prepared to feel great agony.

Contrary to myth, for instance, intrinsic physical characteristics only rarely interfere with the capacity to give birth. In other words, your pelvis is probably big enough for vaginal birth. Nearly every woman's is. Mental attitudes and emotions, on the other hand, interfere with the ability to give birth far more than is generally understood.

our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.

The pain of labor and birth has an entirely different message. It says: "Relax your pelvic muscles. Let go. Surrender. Go with the flow. Don't fight this. It's bigger than you." This is far different from the message of "Protect yourself!" or "Run away!" that accompanies injury.

A consensus meeting organized by the World Health Organization on appropriate technology for birth held in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1985 recommended that "no geographic region should have rates of induced labor over ten percent.

Human life has sorrow; They who meet must part; He that is born must die;

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Perhaps after all not to have been born is best. How near the human soul must be to nothingness if it can be so tossed.

A talent for oblivion is a talent for survival. I laid my head down and merciful pain-killing sleep covered me fathoms deep. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.

the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.

The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. - Clara the clairvoyant

Al nacer Rosa era blanca, lisa, sin arrugas, como una muñeca de loza, con el cabello verde y los ojos amarillos, la criatura más hermosa que había nacido en la tierra desde los tiempos de pecado original.

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad.

Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you,' Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.

Just as when we come into this world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. but the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.