Quotes About Birth

God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

To be deified is to enable God to be born in oneself. Dionysius the Areopagite Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, II, Intro. (PG 3,392)

Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

How would you know?" I snapped at him, and we both looked to the midwife. When she assured us that everything was fine and reminded us both to breathe, we listened. She knew. She had been there many times before. It was her knowledge, born of experience, that we trusted.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.

C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.

Te pediré entonces tan sólo que explotes bien el milagro de haber nacido, y que no cedas nunca a la cobardía, que es una bestía que siempre está en acecho. Nos muerde a todos, cada día, y son pocos los que no se dejan despedazar por ella en nombre de la prudencia, de la conveniencia y a veces la sensatez.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

Recently I have come to understand why such things as war, peace, unions, trade, politics exist in the world. I don't suppose you know. That's why you will always be unhappy. I'll tell you why--it is so that women will give birth to healthy babies.

Ach, ?ycie ludzkie jest zbyt ?a?osne! Rzeczywisto??, w której wszyscy my?l?, ?e lepiej by?oby si? nie urodzi?. I tak codziennie, od rana do wieczora, jedynie na co? czekam. To zbyt ?a?osne. Ach, jak?e chcia?abym si? cieszy?, ?e si? urodzi?am, cieszy? si? z ?ycia, z ludzi, z tego ?wiata!

Everything started as nothing.

I was born in the night of the second and third Of January, ninety-something-or-other, An unreliable year, and the centuries Surround me with fire.

O, may my lips someday attain The primal muteness that I've sought - That's like a flawless crystal note, Its purity - from birth sustained.

ABELARDO I: [...] Foi a bala do cano que penetrou profundamente, a primeira... As outras rodearam o coração! Que dor... Decerto é porque o coração ficou intacto... O coração, esse útero do homem, onde a gente gera os filhos mais caros... a ambição, o desespero, a vontade de viver... a literatura...

Optimism is cowardice. We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end.

A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think. Truth in the long run is to him the picture of the world which was born at his birth.

On Friday the thirteenth of February 1970, Black Sabbath went on sale. I felt like I'd just been born. But the critics f**king hated it.

A közkelet? tréfa szerint magyarnak lenni, illetve afféle kelet-, közép-, közép-kelet-európainak lenni – az pech. Ez a Hrabal azt mondja, így gondolta az író, hogy ez nem így van, nem pech, hanem tragédia, ide születni, az tragédia, sÅ't még ennél is több: komédia. Szóval dráma.

Oh oh!" said the mother bird. "My baby will be here! He will want to eat.

Lying on a birth table was first made popular in France in 1738 by Francois Mauriceau, physician to the queen, who proposed it as an alternative to the commonly used birth chair. Mauriceau encouraged this position not because it helped women in birth, but because it facilitated his control of problematic delivery and the use of forceps.

Others have more beauty in their face/Without thy heart:/To some is giv'n more honour, birth or grace,/And ye thou art/To my thoughts as the star,/That sparks so bright above,/Seems to the moth so far/Yet holds his love