Age Quote by John Brown

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back…

— Emily Carr

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls…

— Catharine Arnold

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And…

— Paul Eldridge

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances…

— Madame de Stael

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

— David Levithan

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died…

— Lord Byron

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

“A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only…

— James Frey

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory,…

— Dean Koontz