Bones Quote by Goodman Ace

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

— Thomas Jefferson

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

— Alexander Smith

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing…

— Charles Lamb

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

— Douglas MacArthur

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us…

— Teresa de la Parra

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when…

— Siri Hustvedt

Mourn for the past if you are unaware of who you are, and what you have.

— Gumus

People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier…

— Walter Kirn

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

— Horace

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch