Buried Quote by Sophie Hannah

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

— Francois Mauriac

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

— Winston Churchill

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Not that there seems to be any appropriate place to bury someone, but these municipal cemeteries, or any cemetery at all for that matter,…

— Dave Eggers

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This…

— J.R. Miller

“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend…

— Mark Helprin

“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

“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