Birth Quotes

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Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha
Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things?… — Gautama Buddha
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You… — Gautama Buddha
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. — Gautama Buddha
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. — William Cowper
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought… — Alexander Pope
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down. — William Stafford
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. — Alistair Cooke
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must… — Bertrand Russell
I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days. — Darryl Dawkins
I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they? — Samuel Rogers
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. — Lewis Mumford
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often… — Abraham Maslow
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. — Camille Paglia

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