Feelings Quote by Benjamin Jowett

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

— Benjamin Jowett

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone…

— Jane Austen

“DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added that naturally he was!' 'It's…

— E.F. Benson

“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should…

— Andrei Codrescu

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would…

— George Herbert

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out…

— Emily Dickinson

“In that ugly building, amidst that weary praying and inharmonious singing, with that blatant tone, and, worse than all, that merciless doctrine, there was…

— George MacDonald

“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport—Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot…

— William Wordsworth