Building Quote by Dan Wells

“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered…

— Ambrose Bierce

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved…

— Harold Brodkey

“In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that,…

— Yukio Mishima

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

— Abraham Coles

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails…

— Yukio Mishima

The tears shed over the graves are unfinished deeds and words.

— Naquitta Faith

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

— Saint Augustine

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did…

— Robert Southey

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

— Michel de Montaigne

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard