Birth Quote by Frank Herbert

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of…

— Elizabeth Noble

“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they…

— Doris Lessing

“Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.”

— Walter M. Miller Jr

We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form…

— David Benatar

“Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for…

— Erich Fromm

“Two puzzles that cannot be solved: The miracle of birth and misery of death.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“..a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And poop.”

— Carolyn Hax

“What voice? Tears wrote this. Pain bore this. When you are over-pregnant with fear this is what you give birth to.”

— Tapiwa Mugabe

“The unborn baby lies in a cage we call a womb. He has eyes but cannot use them, and a mouth that he has…

— T.D. Jakes

“Thus he goes beyond the pain of birth and death. Thus he becomes free”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught…

— Ed McDonald

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident