Worm Quote by Carrie-Anne O'Driscoll

“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”

— New International Version

“The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.”

— Charles Dickens

“You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“how small he was and how wormy in manner,”

— James A. Michener

“We live as best we may in a world of worms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor”

— Benjamin Franklin

“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realising that it is simply a pretty cover for…

— Neil Gaiman

“I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would soon be…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“As soon as you were born you were captured by fresh air that you screamed against the minute you came out. Then you were…

— Alan Sillitoe

“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.”

— Mark Lawrence

“That,” said Wednesday, driving off, “is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply…

— Neil Gaiman

“he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he…

— Robert Jordan