“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do… — April Slaughter 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
“Clemo, Nonini, Jua Cali wakianzisha Genge, ilishika but hawakuwa na clear plan. Now it's dead and burried with Mejja as the only… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock 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
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps more importantly, the ants used all the sugar lumps they could steal to build a small sugar pyramid in one of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey 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
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
“Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
