Quotes About Birth

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

My birthday began with the water- Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

We usually appreciate only half the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death, gain but not loss, or the end of exams but not the beginning. True liberation comes from appreciating the whole cycle and not grasping onto those things we find agreeable.

It was the language that left us first. The Great Migration of words. When people spoke they punched each other in the mouth. There was no vocabulary for love. Women became masculine and could no longer give birth to warmth or a simple caress with their lips. Tongues were overweight from profanity and the taste of nastiness. It settled over cities like fog smothering everything in sight. My ears begged for camouflage and the chance to go to war. Everywhere was the decay of how we sound.

Ne pas naître est sans contredit la meilleur formule qui soit. Elle n'est malheureusement à la portée de personne

If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.