Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
PEOPLE DIE. This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.
[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback. ' It's ridiculous. No.
Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven and how much earth were in this baby at his birth? Did you know, or did you wonder?
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.
If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).