Burials Quote by Junot Díaz

“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab

“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and a symbol…

— Richard Lloyd Parry

“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal…

— Carl Abrahamsson

“Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely…

— Thomas Mann

“Sometimes the dead don't stay where you put them.”

— Dianne Salerni

“There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.”

— Anthony Trollope

“We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their…

— Amy Plum

“If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try.…

— Haruki Murakami

“What would it be like to have someone so devoted? That they would travel into the Land of the Dead, to plead for your…

— Sasha Summers

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter