Quote by Jesse Ball Download Open image ““We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847”” — Jesse Ball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, IŌĆÖve been grateful itŌĆÖs here, too. I miss my wife. ItŌĆÖs easier to miss her at… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Some people were born just so they could be buried; his mother was like that, and he’d always” — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang up in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you? — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine? That you can say something, offhand, and it can matter, it can really matter to someone else? Can you imagine what… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“The whole thing about people living on in memory is a crock of shit. The best you can do is try to remember what… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
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