Graveyard Quotes

126 quotes by 109 authors

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. — Arthur Lynch
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a… — Andre Malraux
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play… — Christopher Hitchens
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of… — Wallace Stegner
The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities,… — Edward Robert Harrison
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert H. Jackson
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen. — Garth Brooks
Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won. — Darryl Worley
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. — Paul Farmer
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard. — Immanuel Kant
The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard,… — Larry Sabato
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a… — Susan Crandall
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. — Charles de Gaulle
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the… — John F. Kennedy
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst… — Conor Oberst
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. — Robert Smithson

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