Graves Quotes · Page 10

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

— Friedrich Schiller

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

— KaDee Strickland

The grave has a door on its inner side.

— Alexander MacLaren

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

— Francis Alexander Durivage

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

— Giacomo Casanova

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

— William Wordsworth

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

— Moses

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

— Khalil Gibran

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

— Alice Cooper

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through…

— Ambrose Bierce

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the…

— Chuck Smith

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

— Henry David Thoreau

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

— George Herbert

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

— Elvis Costello

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

— Alexander Pope

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave…

— Rudolf Rocker

All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur…

— William Cowper

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally…

— Seth Berkley

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't…

— Michael Skolnik

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross…

— Billy Graham

I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of…

— Michael Chabon

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath…

— Robert Southey

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be…

— Anonymous

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is…

— Rachel Kushner

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the…

— Alexander Smith

Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s…

— Louise Brealey

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,…

— J. G. Ballard

Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It…

— Frederick William Robertson

There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the…

— Zygmunt Bauman

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am…

— Walt Whitman

There's no repentance in the grave.

— Isaac Watts

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

— John Milton

“ALL THE WORKS OF MEN ARE SUMMED UP IN THEIR GRAVES”

— QHUBEKANI NCUBE

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

— Edmund Burke

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

— John Milton

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

— Ambrose Bierce

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

— Allen Iverson

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive…

— Adolph Rupp