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1109 Graves quotes by 775 unique authors
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
— Rajneesh
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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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…
— Umar
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Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
— Al-Shafi‘i
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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
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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
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .…
— Red Cloud
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
— Karl Marx
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Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm…
— Pope John Paul II
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom
— Margaret Thatcher
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Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on…
— Albert Einstein
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision,…
— Leigh Hunt
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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a…
— Albert Einstein
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The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
— DeWitt Wallace
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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