Covered Quote by Milan Kundera

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing…

— Margaret Atwood

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically…

— C.E. Murphy

“The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground’s too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms…

— George R.R. Martin

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I met Jose Angelico the way I meet many of my customers. I have a workshop on the cemetery road, just past the coffin…

— Andy Mulligan

“If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“A line in the sand can become a rut. A rut can become a ditch, and a ditch can be worn down into a…

— Deborah Epperson

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann