Creeps Quote by Wendell Phillips

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality

— Wendell Phillips

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality

— Wendell Phillips

“Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.”

— Jack L. Chalker

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

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

— Milan Kundera

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is…

— William Butler Yeats

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

— Charles de Gaulle

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

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

— George Wald

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

— Edgar Allan Poe