Quote by Charles Dickens

“The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground’s too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms…

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An ambitious worm is better than a complacent butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.”

— Alice Sebold

“The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata. In the morning, however, it always saw fit to die.”

— Toni Morrison

“The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.”

— Milan Kundera

“Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.”

— Colin Cotterill

“The rest of the day seemed to creep by as slow as a worm in molasses.”

— George R.R. Martin

“If you have to die like a worm, die that way, complaining will not fetch you anything extra.”

— Rabisankar Bal

“The early worm gets eaten by the early bird.”

— Anonymous

“It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp and char rather than ignite.”

— Christina Henry