Home / Topics / Birth Quotes

Birth Quotes

Browse 3916 quotes about Birth.

Birth Quotes

“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 will not build the house again.”

House Birth Findings Painful Seeking Rebirth Builder

Author:Gautama Buddha

“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.”

Mean Soul Able Born Return Birth Embrace Painful Separation Limitation Expansion Reunion Dissolution Confinement Individuation

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”

Source: Justice

“Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.”

Wells Said Wish Forget Destiny Objects Birth Painful Ties Recalls Our Destiny Absent Birthplace Birth Place Painful Thoughts

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.”

Giving Family Birth Painful Motherhood Delivery Stepchild Stepchildren

Book:The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey

Source: The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey

“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.”

“Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.”

World Giving Soul Helping Risk Journey Dangerous Birth Crosses Painful Working It Threshold Giving Birth Initiation Priestesses

Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

“If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.”

Ifs Giving Looks Choices Careers Birth Shoes Painful Selling Giving Birth Porcupines Selling Shoes

Author:Richard Jeni

“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.”

Thinking Way Made Helping Would Be Mother Father Decision Half Birth Drug Raised Painful Violent Addict Adopted Alcoholism Alcoholics Drug Addict Save Me

Author:Melissa Febos

“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”

Children Littles Science Death Dies Born Natural Dying Birth Painful Infant Painful Death

Author:Francis Bacon

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

Art Philosophy Born Vision History Birth Painful Awakened

Book:Four Novels by James Joyce

Source: Four Novels by James Joyce

“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”

Giving Humans Two Body Energy Human Nature Materials Birth Flow Painful Bliss Estrangement

Author:Adrienne Rich

“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.”

“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Firsts Body Pain Spiritual Spirit Mother Suffering Bits Growth Born Mom Birth Painful Spiritual Growth Inner Life

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land