Buried Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

— Sebastian Faulks

“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their souls, the…

— Donato Carrisi

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

— Henri Cazalis

“to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“To dust is only to forestall burial ”

— Annie Dillard

“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of…

— Minae Mizumura

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me…

— George Eliot

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Before we packed our bags and left all this behind us in the dust. We had a place that we could call home, and…

— Rise Against

“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days,…

— Boris Pasternak