Grave Quotes
1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors
-
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We…
— William Hazlitt
-
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull…
— Leo Tolstoy
-
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
— Thomas William Parsons
-
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness,…
— Abu Bakr
-
Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
— John Quinton
-
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
— Caroline Norton
-
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
— Mary Elizabeth Frye
-
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
— Maya Angelou
-
To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the…
— Unknown Author
-
Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
-
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
-
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow…
— Chief Joseph
-
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
-
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
— Rajneesh
-
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of…
— Unknown Author
-
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
— Al-Shafi‘i
-
Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who…
— Barack Obama
-
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
— William Shakespeare
-
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not…
— Unknown Author
-
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it…
— Henry Van Dyke
-
When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my…
— Steven Morrissey
-
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the…
— Sun Tzu
-
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of…
— Miguel de Cervantes
Who Wrote These Grave Quotes
832 authors contributed a total of 1,157 Grave Quotes, led by these top contributors: