Books Quote by Abraham Cowley

“Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books,…

— Abraham Cowley

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“The dead are everywhere. Most are buried and forgotten. A very small number walk among you.”

— J.R. Rain

“If you think a lot, write a book, Because a gravestone does not have much space.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“When I die, bury me with a few garden tools, I shall make a garden in the heaven too.”

— Preeth Nambiar

“...and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled…

— Sue Grafton

“I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages of freshness…

— Barry Eisler

“the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.”

— Italo Calvino

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you could fill…

— Cornelia Funke

“.. a circle of inner radiance, as calm as it was bright. Teach me to live that I may dread The Grave as little…

— The golden hymn book