birth quotes

“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”

“Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ”

— Franz Kafka

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”