Bones Quote by Pete Seeger

“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a…

— Sara Sheridan

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

Some people are such treasures that you really just wanna bury them.

— Nishan Panwar

“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be,…

— Lara Biyuts

“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

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“At Waterloo, the common dead were left to rot on the battlefield; their bones were gathered up by English contractors, shipped back to Britain,…

— by Michael Ignatieff The Warrior's Honour

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night…

— Charles Dickens

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

“Wood nymphs,” said Jackaby. “Not a real cheery lot, them,” observed Hudson. “In retrospect, a library is a rather somber locale for their kind.…

— William Ritter

“They were just bones, bones in a box, but their bones were his bones, and he stood as close to the bones as he…

— Philip Roth

“No, thought Oedipa, sad. As if their home cemetery in some way still did exist, in a land where you could somehow walk, and…

— Thomas Pynchon