Body Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Dear, dear Norland,' said Elinor, 'probably looks much as it always does at this time of year. The woods and walks thickly covered with…

— Jane Austen

I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them…

— Silas House

“The shape of remembrance etched in the body's exertion, first leaf, then foliage. Even the cathedral with an empty backyard at night clad in…

— Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“The shadows of leaves are addressed to immortality”

— Donald Revell

“Outside, I take in the fact that the night is deeply dusky and warm, and that feels like a balm after the cold air…

— Gilly Macmillan

“ Ephemera Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is waning." And…

— W.B. Yeats

The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of…

— Theodore Roethke

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since…

— Lucy Larcom

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin

“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

However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes;…

— Ivan Turgenev

“When I look at these stiffs by the fire, I am looking at a graveyard. There is hardly room to move between the tombstones.…

— Tom Kromer