John Banville Quote

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

The Sea (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2008) - ISBN: 9780330464697

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop,...

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop,...

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop,...

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop,...