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Quotes About Urn

But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
~ James Beattie
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.
~ Henry Vaughan
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one…. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
~ William Faulkner
Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn,   105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o'er my urn;
~ Alexander Pope
Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!
~ Jeanne Birdsall
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
~ Robert Browning
One universe, one body...in this urn the animal night sweats of the spirit burn
~ Robert Lowell
I prefer to be upright and contained -- an urn in daylight.
~ Margaret Atwood
And when I gave him the urn, he weighed it in his hand and declared she wasn't quite all there—she'd weighed a full one hundred and sixty-five pounds when she was alive—so he weighed her on a scale and then sat down and worked out that there ought to be another one and three-quarter ounces of her
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Ina stood and shuffled over to the urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.
~ Stuart MacBride
I got his ashes, she said, and I took them out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn't even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with green and blue pebbles…
~ Charles Bukowski
If there are 60,000 blue marbles and 40,000 red marbles in a giant urn, then the most likely composition of a sample of 100 marbles drawn randomly from the urn would be 60 blue marbles and 40 red marbles.
~ Charles Wheelan
the regional mental asylum. The SS is in charge. They have built a special crematorium. Those who are not wanted are taken up in a kind of police van.People here call it the whispering coach. The relatives receive the urn. Recently one family here received two urns at once. - We now have pure communism. But communism murders more honestly.
~ Victor Klemperer
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
~ Oscar Wilde
Thanks," she said, and went back to the coffee urn. Not exactly chummy. Suddenly grumpy Alvina
~ Jerry Spinelli
For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
~ Unknown
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.
~ Lynn Flewelling
He collects my ashes himself, though this is a women's duty. He puts them in a golden urn, the finest in our camp, and turns to the watching Greeks. 'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
~ Madeline Miller
sbitentshik [*an urn for brewing honey tea],
~ Nikolai Gogol