Life Quote by James Kelman

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forceps.”

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Mark Lawrence

“The living dead are born out of the ground, but they rise in smoke.”

— Daryl Gregory

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to…

— Samuel Beckett

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in…

— Carrie Ryan

“And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you…

— Parke Godwin

“Birth, death . . .?’ ‘And nappies, madam. Things men don’t do.”

— Catriona McPherson

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“when my grave if filled, crumble a piece of bread on it, so that the sparrows will come down and cheer me up”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri