Age Quote by Friedrich Muller

“Of bones the city is made, Plastered with flesh and blood, Where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.”

— Dhammapada

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower…

— Terry Maggert

“Old Men’s Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And…

— Paul Eldridge

“I suspect if we were as familiar with our bones as with our skin, we'd never bury dead but shrine them in their rooms,…

— William H. Gass

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,

— Cassandra Clare

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

— James Runcie

“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”

— Nadifa Mohamed

“Everyone has blood and bones; the important one is your intention and your soul.”

— Marlo Morgan

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes…

— William Shakespeare

“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly…

— Fernando Pessoa