We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your… — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia… — Horace Copy Share Image
The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never… — John Keats Copy Share Image
TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD:… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image