Expatriot Quote by Mark Ehrman

“I'm dead long time ago. Right now that moves my body is a dream of spiritual being. I belong in heaven.”

— my self

“Do you honestly think that where you’re buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?”

— Gayle Forman

“When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”

— Rosamund Hodge

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“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

“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

“Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

— Emily Brontë

“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

“But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site.…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.”

— Alexandra Stoddard