Graves Quotes · Page 16

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

— Hope Edelman

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

— Etheridge Knight

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

— Horace

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

— Anonymous

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

— Anonymous

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

— William Shakespeare

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

— Leo Tolstoy

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of…

— Thomas Chalmers

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave.…

— Philip K. Dick

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the…

— Simon Bolivar

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.…

— William Shakespeare

I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and…

— Stephanie Rothman

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever…

— Aleksis Kivi

The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,…

— Alexander MacLaren

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure…

— Yasmina Khadra

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet…

— Charles Caleb Colton

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can…

— Philip Alston

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to…

— Mitt Romney

But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen…

— Lewis Nordan

Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,…

— Ben Jonson

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

— Sebastian Faulks

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

— Rodrigo Rato

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as…

— John Ruskin

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

— Michael R. Burch

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

— George Bernard Shaw

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to…

— Kami Garcia

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in…

— James Montgomery

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

— Ambrose Bierce

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…

— Thomas Hardy

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

— John Dryden

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

— Bill Vaughan

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

— Livy

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

— Edgar Allan Poe

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale…

— John Webster