"This howling mouth, this head which rolls back……" — Frederick Leboyer

"This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape."

— Frederick Leboyer

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11 Quotes by Frederick Leboyer

Frederick Leboyer has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,
The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived…
Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end…
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the…
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

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More Escape Quotes

This quote is filed under Escape Quotes, one of 1,931 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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