Cemeteries Quote by Italo Calvino

“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”

— Anthony Liccione

“You walk down the street and people are just graveyards, really.”

— Kirk Read

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“You need a cemetery to go through life”

— Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

“There’s something special about visiting a graveyard. Both life and death meet together in time.”

— Eric Overby

“I visited my old haunt, but somehow without all my old friends there with me, the cemetery just wasn’t the same.”

— Jarod Kintz

“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.”

— Anna Kamienska

“Those who have gone before us, now rest peacefully in their graves as their permanent home.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed…

— Colm Tóibín

“I will not let this house become my grave.”

— Sakeya Barnes

“The dead are everywhere. Most are buried and forgotten. A very small number walk among you.”

— J.R. Rain