See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale… — John Webster Copy Share Image
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose… — Shelton Smith Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image