Graves Quotes · Page 10

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet…

— Edward Thomas

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I…

— Lilith Saintcrow

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

— Robert Breault

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took…

— Anonymous

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

— Ralph Kiner

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

— Yogi Berra

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

— Robert Graves

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On…

— Thomas Browne

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

— Kamand Kojouri

I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be…

— Jackson C. Frank

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel…

— Franz Kafka

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you…

— George Eliot

December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries.…

— Siegfried Sassoon

So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take,…

— Anonymous

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every…

— Mary Roach

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret…

— Tea Obreht

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves…

— Sydney Smith

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

— Jodi Picoult

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing.…

— Arthur Golden

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

— Wendell Phillips

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your…

— O. Henry

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

— Rodrigo Rato

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

— Matthew Henry