“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. — Wil Shriner Copy Share Image
Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial? — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
If Tears we shed for people when they die were to be considered then maybe no one will be burried again. — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little… — William Shakespeare 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
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden… — Carl Abrahamsson 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
“[Dust] Agatha Morley all her life grumbled at dust like a good wife ... Six feet under the earth she lies with… — Sydney King Russell Copy Share Image
“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“=The Burial of Love= His eyes in eclipse, Pale cold his lips, The light of his hopes unfed, Mute his tongue, His… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich… — Ernest Cline 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
“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
“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
The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain… — Rick Warren 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
“The burial crew found him at Sara’s grave one day that summer. Without bothering to ask permission from the town council, they… — Alice Hoffman 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
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt 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
“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
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