Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes”
Confessions, Book I, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Rousseau's mother, Suzanne Bernard, died shortly after his birth; he describes himself as born 'in a very weakly and infirm state'.
Citation: "my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book I, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
