Gravestones Quote by Yukio Mishima

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails…

— Yukio Mishima

“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the…

— Yukio Mishima

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard

“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past…

— Homer

“the moonbeams cast eerie shadows across the gravestones. A group of hooded figures encircled a stone, like specters presiding over their dead. Though”

— Anita Estes

“Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that the dead…

— Charles Dickens

“The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of…

— Charles Dickens

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

“A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse…

— Mark Lawrence

“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps began to…

— Charles Dickens

“In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.”

— Glen Cook

“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”

— B. Traven