Grave Quotes
1157 quotes by 868 authors
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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
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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
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
— Henry Adams
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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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
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
— Lord Byron
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
— Salmon P. Chase
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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
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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
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He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.
— Hammond Innes
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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
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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
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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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