Graves Quotes · Page 14

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

— Philippe Claudel

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

— Charlotte Bronte

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a…

— Samuel Hoffenstein

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

— Saint John Chrysostom

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

— Henry Kirke White

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

— William Cowper

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

— Joan Crawford

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

— Texas Guinan

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the…

— John Ruskin

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after…

— Edmund Spenser

If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be…

— Matt Chandler

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their…

— Patricia Hampl

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages,…

— Etheridge Knight

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along…

— Anonymous

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be…

— Tryon Edwards

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept…

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Siegfried Sassoon

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that…

— Criss Jami

States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of…

— George W. Bush

When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs].…

— Nick Vujicic

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

— John Ashbery

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the…

— Guy Endore

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

— William Cowper

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

— Stefan Molyneux

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

— Alexander Smith

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

— Washington Irving

On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

— John Mark McMillan

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be…

— Stevie Smith

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

— Andy Stanley

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

— Salmon P. Chase

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

— George W. Bush

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

— Henri Matisse

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

— Thomas William Parsons