Quotes About Birth

Hasn't everyone to be born somewhere,' Furlong said. 'Sure wasn't Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

1059The egg it is the source of it all. 'Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.

It's hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I'm bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it.

It suddenly occurred to me that you don't need order to live. There is no pattern to follow and the pattern itself doesn't even exist: I am born.

Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.

Then, born again from her womb, it rose again, beseeching in a swelling wave, that urge to kill.

I was born a few instants ago and I am dimmed.

Being born is like this: The sunflowers slowly turn their corollas toward the sun. The wheat is ripe. The bread is eaten with sweetness. My impulse connects to that of the roots of the trees

Aquello que será después es ahora. Ahora es el dominio de ahora. Y mientras dura la improvisación yo nazco.

You who are reading me please help me to be born.

Not having been born an animal is one of my secret nostalgias.

Crear de uno mismo un ser es muy serio. Estoy creándome. Y andar en la oscuridad completa en busca de nosotros mismos es lo que hacemos. Duele. Pero es el dolor del parto; nace algo que es. Se es.

Ter nascido me estragou a saúde.

The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it. I'm a heart beating in the world.

For only now did she understand that a woman is born a woman from that first wail at birth. A woman's destiny is to be a woman.

There's an old mistake about the word love, and, if many children have been born of this mistake, countless others have missed their only instant of being born merely due to a susceptibility that demands you be mine, mine! that you like me, and not my money.

But there are those who starve to death and all I can do is be born. My rigmarole is: what can I do for them? My answer is: paint a fresco in adagio. I could suffer the hunger of others in silence but a contralto voice makes me sing—I sing dull and black. It's my message of a person alone. A person eats another from hunger. But I fed myself with my own placenta. And I'm not going to bite my nails because this is a tranquil adagio.

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.

The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

The world's longest, as far as I know, ghazal ("Bowls of Food") in its wandering wonders what's hidden in language, in the talk of plants, and in the moment, which, it says, is an embryo inside an eggshell that shatters into birth to become birdsong, and God! Such an astonishing image for the transformative edge of the present.