Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. — George R. R. Martin
On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous. — Marianne de Pierres
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried… — Lynne Truss
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to… — Bram Stoker
Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for… — Jim Butcher
I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I… — Emily Bronte
Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave. — Devon Monk
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier
Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it… — Cassandra Clare
I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly. — Karen Marie Moning
No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen. — Karen Marie Moning
She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.” “Not a cop.” “Federal agent?” “FBI.” “Even more unlikely.” “J. Edgar… — Sandra Brown
I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid… — Wilson Rawls
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the… — Arthur Miller
Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave… — Lynsay Sands
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do… — Ben Jonson
‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense… — Leon Trotsky
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it… — George Eliot
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food… — Charles Dickens
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? — Vaclav Havel
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in… — Dan Simmons
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it! — Neal Shusterman
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who… — John Keats

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