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Quotes About Birth

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
~ Gore Vidal
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
~ Dogen
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~ Thornton Wilder
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
~ James Joyce
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
~ Aldous Huxley
As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.
~ Richard Selzer
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Death was no less a miracle than birth.
~ Stephen King
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
~ John Aubrey
The leading cause of death is birth.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
~ Jim Bishop
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
~ Lorna Luft
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
~ Dean Koontz, The Husband
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
~ Louise Gluck
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
~ Thomas Huxley
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
~ Walt Whitman
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
~ Ovid
Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.
~ Philip Yancey
You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an act of love. You give birth to your childd and you can do it gently.
~ Philippa Gregory
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
~ Philippa Gregory
Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.
~ Philippa Gregory