Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. — John Henry Newman
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every man is grave alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to… — William C. Bryant
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a… — Alexander Smith
If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it… — Malalai Joya
Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever… — Robert Lowry
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. — Michel de Montaigne
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure… — Mark Twain
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. — Robert Frost
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to… — John Updike
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. — James Fallows
The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder. — Cleveland Amory
If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center… — Matt Chandler
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. — James Russell Lowell
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. — John Dryden
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to… — Euripides
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. — Matthew Simpson
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave — John Keats
... someday we'll remember so much we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war… — Ray Bradbury

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