Horse Quote by Catharine Arnold

“Burial of the dead was usually on platforms lashed to the limbs of trees beyond the reach of wolves. Securely wrapped in buffalo robes,…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“The Dead Father was slaying, in a grove of music and musicians. First he slew a harpist and then a performer upon the serpent…

— Donald Barthelme

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances…

— Madame de Stael

“A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with…

— Cormac McCarthy

“They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out…

— Cormac McCarthy

“After the service, a crowd gathered by the grave. It is not a pauper's grave. It is the sort of grave that ordinary people…

— Alexander Masters

“{ The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral quoted here…

— Herman E. Kittredge

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died…

— Lord Byron

“The boldest yodellers found him, impaled; they stumbled into his shop and over the longest needle in the world, which darned his spleen to…

— Rhys Hughes

“And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they…

— Jean Lorrain

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be…

— Henry Fielding

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich