Alas Quote by Bayard Taylor

Colour can raise the dead.

— Iris Apfel

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

— Dean Koontz

“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It…

— David McMurtrie Gregg

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

— Sylvia Plath

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

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

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

— Michael Rosen

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

— Lord Byron

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

— Edgar Cayce

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty…

— John Evelyn