When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (King Lear)
Birth Quotes
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic.
Being born is like being kidnapped And then sold into slavery.
On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. (on the difference between men and women)
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in […]
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out. (Wisdom of Solomon 7:6)
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. (John 16:21)
Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues by a person leads him to greatness.
A guest on Groucho Marx’s “You Bet Your Life” television show was a woman who had given birth to twenty-two children. “I love my husband,” the woman explained sheepishly. “I love my cigar too,” Groucho said, “but I take it out once in a while.” (Reportedly Apocryphal)
