Antiquity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

— Mark Victor Hansen

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in…

— Alexander Stoddart

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

— Kerli

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas…

— Myles Munroe

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

— Samuel Beckett

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it,…

— Mark Twain

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

— Francois Mauriac

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

— Christopher Rice

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one…

— Isaac Marion

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

— Ivan Klíma

“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis