Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he… — Thomas Hardy
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake. — Lee Kuan Yew
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even… — William Penn
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,… — Carl Sagan
As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the… — Sebastian Faulks
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it. — Leonardo da Vinci
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to… — Bill Bright
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean… — Joe Abercrombie
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. — Unknown Author
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. — Pope Benedict XVI
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know… — Henry David Thoreau
Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up… — Erich Maria Remarque
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. — Sebastian Faulks
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that this thing happened… — Greg Gilbert
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? — Ransom Riggs
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of… — Thomas Browne
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July… — Ron Kovic
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads… — James Anthony Froude
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave? — Margaret Thatcher
So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his… — Heinrich Heine
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
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way… — Robert Frost
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable… — William Matthews
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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