Anti Natalism Quotes

“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“X maintains we are at the end of a "cosmic cycle" and that soon everything will fall apart. And he does not doubt this for one moment.
At the same time, he is the father of a--numerous--family. With certitudes like his, what aberration has deluded him into bringing into a doomed world one child after the next? If we foresee the End, if we are sure it will be coming soon, if we even anticipate it, better to do so alone. One does not procreate on Patmos.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A human is killed by accident way less often than a child is made by mistake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Here it is. I would prohibit reproduction. I would perfect the condom and other appliances and generalize their use. I would create state-run corps of abortionists. I would impose the death sentence on every woman guilty of having given birth. I would drown the new born. I would campaign in favour of homosexuality and myself set the example. And to get things going, I would encourage by every means recourse to euthanasia, without, however, making it an obligation. Here you have the broad outlines.”
― Samuel Beckett, Eleuthéria

“Many will be tempted to assess the quality of a life simply by subtracting the disvalue of life’s negative features from the value of its positive features. That is to say, they will assign values to quad-rants (1) and (2) in my schema, and then subtract the latter from the former. However, this way of determining a life’s quality is far too simplistic.”
― David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

“Once you have Sold your Soul, you have no other alternative left to yourself, but to sell it again & again & again, that too rather cheaper.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“[H]eirs of the flagellants, it is by refining our excruciations that we become conscious of ourselves”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist