Being Born Quotes

“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.”
― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn

“The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Being born’s a hell of a lottery”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“That is why nothing appears, all is silent, one is frightened to be born, no, one wishes one were, so as to begin to die.”
― Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“Physicality’s a cage. And a liberation.

The cells I’ll fill in, they’re magnificent, burgeoning with aliveness! I’m dialed into them like a station on a radio transmitting constantly. First faint and distant, but growing, amassing, volumizing the very idea of a person this body aims to harbor. Glowing like the universe, always growing. Each new cell increases my momentum, tightening the tether.”
― Laurie Perez, The Power of Amie Martine

“Through nine months of history
I crouched in shadow
Listening to blood whispering.
As I turned towards the tunnel
Of birth I rode an endless
Breaker of blood to pitch
On a strand of life and death."

- Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

“We need the assistance of others to be born into this world and to leave it. Any success between those two points is a result of similar cooperation. 'Self-made' people can't claim all credit for themselves.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Next to the ague, curiosity is the most devilish affliction a body can be stung with. It's the most humanizing thing next to being born and can't be resisted....”
― Donald Honig

“Being born means embarking on a journey that is much longer than your lifetime!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan