Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the… — Ernest Hemingway
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms… — Edward Thomas
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through… — Henry Timrod
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over… — John Keats
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go… — Stephen Fry
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Khalil Gibran
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. — Ellen Glasgow
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. — Samuel Goldwyn
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. — Baltasar Gracian
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over… — Charles Caleb Colton
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink. — Ann Coulter
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. — Quentin Crisp
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. — Quentin Crisp
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed,… — Richard Dawkins

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