#birth

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. ↗

— Dale Dauten

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It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth. ↗

— Sadie Frost

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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ↗

— Edward Young

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And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#death #rebirth #death