Quotes about grave

Israelmore Ayivor -

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!

James Fallows -

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

Debi Cimo - Delicate The alchemy of Emily Greyson

Everything was gone, the garden of wind and light, the Chrysalis, the Mother and her sister-crones, the rowan tree, everything. I was in a grove–no, it was a triad of trees: apple, oak, hazel. And at my feet something that smacked of familiar miens, a stone half buried in a pitch of heather. A stone bearing my name and a date I could hardly remember.A moment passed, another and in those moments I stood numb with gluey feet at the foot of my own grave. For the first time since I’d come to the Fae

Ludwig Tieck - Wake Not the Dead

With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave.

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.

Howard Florey -

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

Munia Khan - Beyond The Vernal Mind

You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial,can you?From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

Jared Brock - and Revived

John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

Prabhukrishna M -

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows

Shannon L. Alder -

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

Georg Büchner - Dantons Tod

Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which it rots.

Gene Wolfe - American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

Giorge Leedy - Uninhibited From Lust To Love

Tommy asks where Carolyn is."She's at Cindy's.""They live together now," Salvador added."Didn’t they just start dating?" Tommy asked.Tiger answered, "Yeah... A couple of WEEKS ago."Unhappy about the news, Tommy objects to Carolyn moving in with Cindy."That's how it happens in our WORLD," Salvador said. "One night you MEET, the next night you MOVE IN, and before you KNOW IT- you're digging a GRAVE IN THE BACK YARD FOR YOUR LOVER DURING A FREAK THUNDERSTORM.""THAT IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE," Tommy s

Bruce R. McConkie -

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.

Bruce R. McConkie -

His rising from death on the third day crowned the Atonement. Again, in some way incomprehensible to us, the effects of his resurrection pass upon all men so that all shall rise from the grave.

Patricia Raybon - The One Year God's Great Blessings Devotional

Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door.

Thomas Paine -

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer - The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir

There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

Mary Baker Eddy -

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol -

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Margaret Cavendish -

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Joseph Hall -

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave

J.R. Tompkins -

She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley do the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don’t fall into the same valley together. Some people’s helping hands became their grave digging tools!

Trisha Leaver - The Secrets We Keep

With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.

Trisha Leaver - The Secrets We Keep

Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what make it perfect.

Trisha Leaver - The Secrets We Keep

I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.

Darynda Jones - Second Grave on the Left

I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air

Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers – tulips, lilies, carnations – to find the heads eaten by deer. It’s just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The earth is quickly turned over by worms, the processes of nature marching on, reminding me of what Paul saw and what I now carry deep in my bones, too: the inextricability of life and death, and the ability to cope, to find meaning despite this, because of this. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he w

Danny Castillones Sillada -

The graveyard is not the final resting place of our dear departed but an ephemeral repository of their remains. The real graveyard, however, is somewhere deep in our heart, where we can always visit them at any time of the day, talk about some unforgettable summers, or cry in solitude as if they were always there for us to stay. And should our twilight come, when we can no longer see the light of the day, some people dear to us will build a graveyard in their hearts. They will let us stay for a

Israelmore Ayivor -

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

There is an end to every journey.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

Giorge Leedy - Uninhibited From Lust To Love

After six long hours of driving and three rest stops, Tiger pulls up to a snow-topped, metal speaker box just outside the State Penitentiary's first gate in Walla Walla. As he rolls down his window and snow flies in his face, Joshua starts begging for a Happy Meal.I turn around, snapping at him. "This ISN'T MCDONALDS and YOU AREN'T HUNGRY. NOW SHUT UP BRAT."A loud scratchy masculine voice blasts out of the speaker. "CAN I HELP YOU?"Tiger leans out the window, as he answers- We're here to visit R

Arzum Uzun -

I killed my ex lovers and buried to my memories' grave. It is JanuaryAnd I am tired of being brave.

Edmund Burke -

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.

Anonymous -

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?

Thomas Gray -

Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Anonymous -

The house appointed for all living.

Bishop Ken -

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Macaulay -

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Omar Khayyam -

Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.

Henry Philip -

Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Robert Southey -

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Robert Louis Stevenson -

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.

Isaac Watts -

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

Neal Shusterman - Red Rider's Hood

You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.

Pablo Neruda - 100 Love Sonnets

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

John Scalzi - Old Man's War

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom

Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

Maritza Compos -

I'd rather dig my own grave than rot in the sun.

Kami Garcia - Beautiful Redemption

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

Anthony Liccione -

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

Pietro Candido Decembrio -

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

Washington Irving - The Sketch Book

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Sheri Webber - Dawn Rising

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

Chila Woychik - On Being a Rat and Other Observations

I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.

Chila Woychik - On Being a Rat and Other Observations

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

Adeosun Olamide -

The fire is coming and even we are not safe in the grave.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

James Runcie - The Colour Of Heaven

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Death is the final destination of every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The greatest loss is the lost of life.

Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The graveyard is an everlasting resting place.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.

Anthony Kiedis - Scar Tissue

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Walt Whitman -

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Walking in close fellowship with God is a spiritual self.

Bamigboye Olurotimi -

The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured, politicians kill, steal and betray the voters, but at the end they go to early grave, lose their peace and become miserable for the rest of their life.

Munia Khan -

My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed

Criss Jami - Healology

If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.

Sunday Adelaja -

wealth and greatness are not destined for the grave

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.

Kami Garcia -

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Sarah Ash -

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Jeaniene Frost - Halfway to the Grave

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?”“In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.

Rebecca McNutt -

Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property.Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. Y

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We came us spirit into the world. We shall depart us spirit out of the world.

Ryan Lilly - Write like no one is reading

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Kamand Kojouri -

Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there.

Cisneros Sandra -

Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become the cross of my pain? No, no, I can't conceive I won't receive your precious lips again. My eyes are tired of weeping, my heart of beating. If perhaps some crystal moment before dawn or twilight you remember me, bring only a bouquet of tears to lay upon my thirsty grave.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

What are we fighting for? When go down the grave naked?