Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine. — Susanna Clarke
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all… — Anne Rice
Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment… — Alison Croggon
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,… — Alberto Manguel
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave. — Rudolf Steiner
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy,… — Mark Twain
Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys… — Emily Bronte
You can run from the grave, but you can't hide. — Jeaniene Frost
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. — T.H. White
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. — Theodore Dreiser
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until… — William Butler Yeats
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than… — James Kahn
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they… — Baroness Orczy
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in… — Heinrich Heine
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… — Herman Melville
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee… — Emily Dickinson
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and… — Gustave Flaubert
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on… — Miguel de Cervantes
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or… — William Cowper

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