Art life Quote by Brad Johnson

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

— Sean Covey

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to…

— John Evelyn

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”

— M.L. Stedman

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God,…

— Dwight L. Moody

“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

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Can I, that these flowers’ obsequies attend, Divine how soon or late my life will end? Let others laugh flower-burial to see: Another year…

— Cao Xueqin

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no…

— William Penn

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died…

— Lord Byron