Graves Quotes · Page 11

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

— Tim Ferriss

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

— John Banville

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

— Charles Dickens

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to…

— Horace

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

— Anonymous

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to…

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...

— George Eliot

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not…

— Audrey Hepburn

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with…

— Richard Hooker

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His…

— Ted Dekker

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…

— M. F. K. Fisher

For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed…

— Zachary Taylor

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's…

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last…

— Boonaa Mohammed

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one…

— Omar Khayyam

Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which…

— William Ernest Henley

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence…

— Charles Dickens

Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are…

— Anonymous

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let…

— Frances Wright

If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly…

— Richard A. Falk

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…

— Judith Lewis Herman

The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the…

— Alan Bersin

However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human…

— James Martineau

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

— Pat Robertson

Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.

— Blind Lemon Jefferson

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

— Pablo Escobar

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave…

— T. S. Eliot

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

— Joe Orton

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently,

— Facundo Cabral

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

— Mary Elizabeth Frye

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

— James Thurber

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

— Francis Quarles

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

— James Montgomery

Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

— Keith Green

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to…

— Anthony Horowitz

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

— Marcus Aurelius

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

— Vaclav Havel