Womb Quotes - Page 12

• At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

  Jules Michelet

  Race, India, World

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• In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

  Barbara G. Walker

  Mother, Dark, Wind

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• As for me, I used to be a bird
  with a gentle white womb,
  someone cut my throat
  just for laughs,
  I don’t know.
  As for me, I used to be a great albatross
  and whirled over the seas.
  Someone put an end to my journey,
  without any charity in the tone of it.
  But even stretched out on the ground
  I sing for you now
  my songs of love.

  Alda Merini

  Song, Cutting, Journey

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Space, Done, World

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• Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Destiny, Religion

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• I have an equal opportunity womb!

  Maya Rudolph

  Opportunity, Equal, Equal Opportunity

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• I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mental Illness, Illness

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.84, Anchor

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• But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  God, Thinking, Giving

  Slam the Door Softly (1970)

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• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  John Milton

  Fighting, Dark, Fire

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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• We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.

  R.K. Narayan

  Mother, Hurt, Loneliness

  R. K. Narayan (2000). “Memories of Malgudi”, p.274, Penguin Books India

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• To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Dark, Knowing, Waiting

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.

  Donnie Burns

  Mother, Learning

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• Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

  Dave Mustaine

  Trying, Musician, Want

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• In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

  Edward Leigh

  Mother, Pro Life, Modern

  "MPs back 24-week abortion limit", news.bbc.co.uk. May 20, 2008.

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• Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Curiosity, Nerves, Rebellious

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Compassion, Feelings

  Alan Keyes' Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.c-span.org. September 22, 2000.

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

  Marquis de Sade

  Medicine, Mistress, Needs

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• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fall, Numbers, Weakness

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.40

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• For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Philosophy, Men, Light

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• O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
  O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
  O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
  A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Land, Voice

  Walt Whitman (1871). “Leaves of Grass: Passage to India”, p.87

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!

  Drew Barrymore

  World, Feels

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• Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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• We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.

  Peter Diamandis

  Pda, Car, Attention

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a lifelong search trying to discover how to live the best life possible. I committed my life to doing what I could to experience greater happiness, which ultimately led me to write a book on the subject called Happy for No Reason.

  Marci Shimoff

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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