Graves Quote by Alexander Pope

Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who…

— Washington Irving

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

— Thomas Chalmers

“What is the present if not the graveyard of the past where, for each of our deeds we dig a grave. Everything we do…

— Mladen Đorđević

“All our lives we sweat and save Building for a shallow grave Must be something else we say Somehow to defend this place Everything…

— Jim Morrison

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did…

— Robert Southey

“It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly of the…

— Joseph Conrad

“At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away.”

— Ann Voskamp