« All Graves Quotes · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Page
Graves Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their…
- 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.
- The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour…
- Even cities have their graves!
- Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
- The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
- 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…
- Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
- He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
- He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
More Graves Quotes
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally… — Berkeley Breathed
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner