Best Cemetery Quotes
148 Cemetery quotes by 134 unique authors
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As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy…
— George Carlin
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I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.
— John Wayne Gacy
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We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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... I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on…
— Dimebag Darrell
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People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
— Aristide Briand
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for…
— Karen Russell
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed…
— David Eugene Edwards
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A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
— Juan Manuel Fangio
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I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective
— Lev Yilmaz
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Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying…
— Joseph Pilates
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I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries,…
— Manis Friedman
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I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.
— Cesar Romero
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The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names…
— Robert Montgomery
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries…
— Margot Asquith
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In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through…
— Aeschylus
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does…
— George Jean Nathan
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This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again.…
— Horst Kohler
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Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
— Elsa Maxwell
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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the…
— Gunter Grass
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The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we…
— Tony Robbins
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Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
— Franco Nero
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