“My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.” — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image