There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.” — C.J. Langenhoven Copy Share Image
He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth… — Unknown Christian Copy Share Image
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“river burial had a certain rustic poetry, but Ophion cared not at all about preserving the decency of the dead. The river… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“The Fear of Burial In the empty field, in the morning, the body waits to be claimed. The spirit sits beside it,… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
All my favorite artists are downtempo - Portishead, Burial, a lot of 1990s trip-hop. Some people are saying that I'm trying to… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
“Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
On a day of burial there is no perspectivefor space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Andrei rested on a bench directly in front of a grave that belonged to: 'A father, hard worker, and beloved friend.' He… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the… — Charles Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Burial of the dead was usually on platforms lashed to the limbs of trees beyond the reach of wolves. Securely wrapped in… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
![“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and…” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f8/don-delillo-294_after-death_to-plot-is-to-live-we-start-out-lives-in_1610967.jpg)
