Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. — Oscar Wilde
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in… — Franz Kafka
Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave. — Joan Crawford
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must… — Herman Melville
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my… — Michael Chabon
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know… — Barbara Kingsolver
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… — Anne Lamott
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. — Emile M. Cioran
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."… — Neil Gaiman
My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would… — Louisa May Alcott
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he… — Neal Shusterman
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.… — Leif Enger
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the… — Erich Maria Remarque
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or… — Salman Rushdie
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to… — Hunter S. Thompson
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? — Emily Bronte
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave. — Percival Everett
Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air;… — Jorge Luis Borges

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