Quotes about creation

"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."

Benjamin, Walter on creation   

"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."

Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano De on creation   

"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."

Browne, Sir Thomas on creation   

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"What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's 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."

Byron, Lord on creation   

"Sperm is a bandit in its pure state."

Cioran, E. M. on creation   

"Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor --because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them."

Davis, Angela Y. on creation   

"It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."

Freud, Sigmund on creation   

"I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti."

Pound, Ezra on creation   

"Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect."

Roosevelt, Theodore on creation   

"Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood."

Sade, Marquis De on creation   

"I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work! If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, Soul, what have I to do with you?"

Schreiner, Olive on creation   

"He plough'd her, and she cropp'd."

Shakespeare, William on creation   

"We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves."

Toynbee, Arnold on creation   

"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on creation   

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."

Cervantes, Miguel De on creation   

"The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

Earhart, Amelia on creation   

"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."

Eliot, George on creation   

"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."

Hemingway, Ernest on creation   

"Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return."

Johnson, Samuel on creation   

"If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman."

Johnson, Samuel on creation   

"Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on creation   

"If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler."

Alfonso X on creation   

"I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me."

Augustine, St. on creation   

"God's first creature, which was light."

Bacon, Francis on creation   

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Cervantes, Miguel De on creation   

"Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all."

Coulson, L. A. on creation   

"when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on creation   

"Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters!"

Ehrenreich, Barbara on creation   

"Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one."

Fuller, Thomas on creation   

"Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote."

Iqbal, Sir Muhammad on creation   

"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"

Johnson, Samuel on creation   

"It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors."

Levenson, Samuel on creation   

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Miller, Henry on creation   

"God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days."

Morley, Christopher on creation   

"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant."

Qur'an on creation   

"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

Ruskin, John on creation   

"Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on creation   

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on creation   

"None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet."

Tasso, Torquato on creation