Burial Quotes
65 quotes by 58 authors
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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The burial of feelings has begun.
— Mark Strand
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... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the mystery, not in…
— Ambrose
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We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are…
— Gregory Palamas
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Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the…
— David Lack
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Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.
— John Climacus
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As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone…
— Ernest Cline
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he…
— Aristotle
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
— Francois Mauriac
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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
— Ugo Betti
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
— Heraclitus
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Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
— Richard Leakey
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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time,…
— Tony Hillerman
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Royalty is a fine burial shroud.
— Theodora
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To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart…
— Henry Allen Ironside
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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
— Catharine Arnold
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
— Christopher Marlowe
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
— George Jean Nathan
Who Wrote These Burial Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 65 Burial Quotes, led by these top contributors: