“[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.”
Source: Monsieur Ouine, 1943, p.244
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“There is no "mid" about it. Lifea crisis from the cradle to the grave.”
Source: How to Make Friends with Demons
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
“A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.”
Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 549
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Context: Man, who wert once a despot and a slave,
A dupe and a deceiver! a decay,
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.
“All our lives we sweat and save,
Building for a shallow grave.”
“Little white lies shining like baby teeth in a shallow grave.”
Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 12, “Toymaker: Reality Excursion” (p. 143)
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 9.
The Beast of Property (1884)
