Best Cemetery Sayings
148 Cemetery quotes by 134 unique authors
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses…
— Alastair Campbell
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
— Marcel Proust
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You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian
— Robin Williams
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as…
— Adam Hochschild
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A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really…
— Hamdi Ulukaya
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The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies…
— Myles Munroe
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California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
— Henny Youngman
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The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before.…
— Elie Wiesel
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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word…
— Andre Breton
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on…
— Remy de Gourmont
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When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in…
— Jenny Lawson
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I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?
— David Rubenstein
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In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
— George Mikes
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Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.
— Tupac Shakur
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I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
— Charles Durning
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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert…
— Katherine Paterson
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
— Steve Jobs
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I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?
— Steve Jobs
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In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates…
— Clarence John Laughlin
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In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our…
— Tom DeLay
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134 authors contributed a total of 148 Cemetery Quotes, led by these top contributors: