Antinatalism Quotes

#1. Life may be scary
But it's only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

Quentin S. Crisp

#2. Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Sarah Brightman

#3. I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

Daphne Guinness

#4. There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus

Lara Avery

#5. I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Beck

#6. A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#7. A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Edward Sapir

#8. Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!"
"That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart."
"I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#9. Educational life is pretty awesome

K.C Tshwaane

#10. Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

Thomas Bernhard

#11. Tis but a day we sojourn here below,
And all the gain we get is grief and woe,
Then, leaving our life's riddles all unsolved,
And burdened with regrets, we have to go.

Omar Khayyam

#12. sure you're okay? That was a pretty nasty fall.

Colleen Hoover

#13. When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

Natalie Massenet

#14. Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting ... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

Gustave Flaubert

#16. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

Peter Wessel Zapffe