Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers… — Richard Brautigan
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… — Cornel West
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right… — Garth Stein
Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites,… — Kristin Cashore
Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you… — Jack Kerouac
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must… — Henry Adams
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your… — Margaret Atwood
Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave — Judy Blundell
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed… — Francoise Sagan
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is… — Gina Barreca
Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which… — F.E. Higgins
You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. — Chinua Achebe
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat… — Saadat Hasan Manto
Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms?… — Tasha Tudor
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and… — Christopher Hitchens
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
What are you?” She demanded. “My dad? Osiris? Are you even alive?” Dad looked at Anubis. “What did I tell you about her? Fiercer than… — Rick Riordan
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in… — William C. Bryant
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the… — Walter Pater
After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of… — Wilson Rawls
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad… — Siegfried Sassoon
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out… — Mike Carey
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths… — Stephen Fry

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