Birth Quotes

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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. — Tom Robbins
Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again… — Banana Yoshimoto
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day.… — Mitch Albom
You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice. — Cassandra Clare
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,… — Paul Auster
Weâ€™re Nephilim. Every one of our lifeâ€™s passages has some mystical component â€” our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a… — Cassandra Clare
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know… — James A. Baldwin
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… — Thornton Wilder
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. — Irvin D. Yalom
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you… — Elizabeth Hand
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — C S Forester
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and… — Francine Rivers
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… — Donna Tartt
Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like… — Michael Grant
And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on… — Eric Weiner
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was… — Marcel Proust
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. — Jeanette Winterson
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It… — L. Tom Perry

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