Birth

I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. – James Augustine

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac

Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Psalms 51:5 – Bible

We are brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. – Bible

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. – William Blake

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. – Sir Thomas Browne

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. – E. M. Cioran

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and its the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husbands mood. – Marquis De Sade

These wretched babies dont come until they are ready. – Queen Elizabeth

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she cant return it for a refund. – Carol Evertt

What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth? – Robert Frost