Birth Quote by Samuel Beckett

“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

“At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away.”

— Ann Voskamp

“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation…

— Benjamin Percy

“When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave. ”

— Steven Montano

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave

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

— Mark Lawrence

“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A GRAVE HAD OPENED IN MY ROAD OF LIFE, AND the gap it made in the smooth ground…

— Charles Dickens

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries.”

— Dean Koontz

“It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.”

— Anthony Liccione