Graves Quotes · Page 25

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

— Pascal Mercier

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…

— Voltaire

I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker.…

— J.R. Ward

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like…

— James A. Garfield

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 British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

— Lee Radziwill

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

— Malcolm X

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.…

— Daniel Drezner

Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and…

— Anne Lamott

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then…

— William Blake

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

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor…

— Thomas Browne

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely…

— Walter Savage Landor

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to…

— Kola Boof

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with…

— Thomas Campbell

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth…

— Benito Perez Galdos

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

— Erin Morgenstern

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson…

— Tom Bailey

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close…

— Anonymous

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

— Anthony Kiedis

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

— Robert Southey

He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will…

— Robert Green Ingersoll