unborn quotes

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

-Jacques Barzun
  The House of Intellect.

To evoke posterity Is to weep on your own grave, Ventriloquizing for the unborn.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  'To Evoke Posterity'.