Graves Quotes

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

If you look at ISIS, General MacArthur, and General Patton, they're spinning in their graves.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

A grave is such a quiet place.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

we dig our graves with our teeth.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

The living grave of crime.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.