Grave Quotes

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping,… — Abigail Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish,… — Marek Belka
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences… — Pope Benedict XVI
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a… — Berkeley Breathed
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.… — Pearl S. Buck
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? — Lord Byron
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. — Salmon P. Chase
In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will… — David McMurtrie Gregg
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is… — Paul Kurtz
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes
Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their… — Shelton Smith
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. — Samuel Hoffenstein
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll… — George Meredith

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