Graves Quotes · Page 21

When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives…

— Anonymous

The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or…

— Herbert Croly

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

— William Wordsworth

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to…

— Emily Bronte

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

— Sebastian Faulks

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

— David Gemmell

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a…

— Andrew Dickson White

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of…

— Baroness Orczy

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling…

— W. H. Auden

Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.

— Tessa Dare

I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid…

— Zahi Hawass

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from…

— Franz Kafka

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

— Hope Edelman

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

— Robert Frost

When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty…

— Rachel Held Evans

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Food of Acheron. (Grave.) [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]

— Plautus

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

— Izaak Walton

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

— Else Lasker-Schuler

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

— Karl Kraus

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

— Georges Bernanos

The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will…

— Mitt Romney