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“For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.”
“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”
“The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a gravey...”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval”
“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”
“COSMIC DANCER""I was dancing when I was twelveI was dancing when I was aaahI danced myself right out the wombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself right out the wombI was dancing when I was...”
“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.”
“Look around. The hantavirus is waiting for you. Ebola and the tropical rainforest is cooking up all kinds of brews to make sure that the population is kept in control. All these things are necessar...”
“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I cry like I saw some of those men out there before they even fired their ...”
“One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.”
“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”
“If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.”
“We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.”
“No man was born empty.”
“No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth.”
“The energy it took to exit mothers womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!”
“Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.”
“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”
“He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.”
“It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family phys...”