Quotes About Buried

The cellar, uncorked like a buried bottle, gave off the stale breath of the years.

When I saw the photograph I realized for the first time why the obituaries had so disturbed me. I had allowed other people to think he was dead. I had allowed him to be buried alive.

perhaps something else besides, for Sacramento is California, and California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.

I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Nowhere can a secret keep Always secret, dark and deep, Half so well as in the past, Buried deep to last, to last. Keep it in your own dark heart. Otherwise the rumors start. After many years have buried Secrets over which you worried, No confidant can then betray All the words you didn't say. Only you can then exhume Secrets safe within the tomb Of memory, of memory, Within the tomb of memory. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

There was a certain comfort in denial. This fragile peace with her consciousness had to be maintained at all costs. Ignored and buried.

Maybe the truth can't be buried. Or maybe it can't stay buried. Maybe the very nature of truth is that it will ultimately reveal itself.

Bodies under the foundation, though—that's where a lot of the local ghosts come from.

It's the middle of winter, more and more snow is falling on us, and my bookcases are collapsing underneath the snow, the snow is burying them slowly, while we all await deportation, and the photographs on the bookshelf are getting wet, pictures of all the people I have loved, and I wipe away the snow and shake the photographs, but the snow keeps falling, my fingers are already numb, and I have to let the snow bury the photos.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

While Smith tried to explain how the records of two Hebrew prophets came into the possession of an Egyptian royal family, he left unexplained why, after being handed down for several generations, they should be buried with mummies.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.

Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

Gregorian chant was the father of western music. But it was eventually killed by its ungrateful children. Buried. Lost and forgotten.

Long dead and buried in another town, my mother hasn't finished with me yet.

You'd be surprised. Not everything buried is actually dead,

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Scars are just a treasure map of pain we've buried too deep to remember.

Scares are just a tresure map for pain you've buried too depp to remember.