Buried Quotes
718 Buried quotes by 574 unique authors
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Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You…
— David James Duncan
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For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves…
— Lauren Oliver
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Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?
— Daniel Handler
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Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a…
— Kim Harrison
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I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall…
— George R. R. Martin
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I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles…
— Neil Gaiman
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Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
— Lauren Oliver
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Keeping love buried was a lot like jeeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up insides until you wanted to scream or…
— Richelle Mead
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But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part…
— Elizabeth Wein
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After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never…
— Paulo Coelho
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I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.
— Janet Frame
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We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled…
— Dave Eggers
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our…
— Orson Scott Card
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Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
— Sebastian Faulks
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child…
— Ted Hughes
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I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing…
— Henry Miller
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All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep,…
— Edna O'Brien
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had…
— Susan Abulhawa
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A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if…
— Jenny Lawson
Who Wrote These Buried Quotes
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