Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave… — Seneca the Younger
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too… — Yasunari Kawabata
Someone is digging your grave right now. — Richard Siken
There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a… — Fatima Jinnah
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born… — George Bernard Shaw
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin. — Thomas J. Paprocki
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything… — F. Huegel
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged… — Tracy Chapman
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. — Ambrose Bierce
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents… — Sandra Day O'Connor
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. — Leo Tolstoy
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused. — Charles I of England
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him.… — Charles Spurgeon
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then — James Russell Lowell
And either victory, or else a grave. — William Shakespeare
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the… — James Joyce

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