905 Quotes About Birth

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Fathers and sons belonged in the shadows with the dogs and livestock, like the retriever growling at Midwife Bell's unfamiliar car from the window of my neighbours' living room.

There is nothing so imperfect, so helpless, so naked, so shapeless, so foul, as man observed at birth, to whom alone, one might almost say, Nature has given not a clean passage to the light; but, defiled with blood and covered with filth, and resembling more one just slain than one just born, he is an object for none to touch or lift up or kiss or embrace except for someone who loves with a natural affection.

The human birth has been given us, it is a priceless birth, we have not recognised its worth. We shall recognize it’s worth when the last moment arrives then we shall realise what a great opportunity we have missed.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Since that moment when in a house with low eavesA doctor from the town cut the navel-stringAnd pears dotted with white mildewReposed in their nests of luxurious weedsI have been in the hands of humans.

We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.

The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.

A mother will birth her baby once, but she will spend a lifetime birthing a person.