Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery,…
— Carl Jung
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It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters.…
— C.S. Lewis
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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the…
— Sylvia Plath
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I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to…
— Tina Fey
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In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
— George R. R. Martin
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
— Mark Twain
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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
— Loren Eiseley
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The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the…
— Ann Voskamp
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What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when…
— Nicholas Sparks
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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious…
— Barack Obama
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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
— William Butler Yeats
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Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of…
— Jennifer Worth
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At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we…
— Holly Black
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The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for…
— Olaf Stapledon
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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
— Erich Fromm
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There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.
— Karen Marie Moning
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The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old…
— Charles Eisenstein
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should…
— Lauren DeStefano
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