Graves Quotes · Page 45

Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement…

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

— Henry David Thoreau

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…

— Sam Houston

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

— Anne Fadiman

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because…

— Rod Serling

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Love is a grave mental illness.

— Plato

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear…

— Victor Hugo

...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance…

— Gina Barreca

In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

— Hammond Innes

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to…

— Salman Rushdie

You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there’s something about knowing…

— Tina Fey

I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

— Bill Burr

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to…

— Horace

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

— Patrick Pearse

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves…

— Jonathan Swift

Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and…

— Lewis B. Smedes

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

— Frida Kahlo

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

— Miriam Margolyes

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass…

— John Henry Newman

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