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Quotes About Buried

Below me, in the foundations of the house, I could hear the clothes I'd buried there growing themselves a body.
~ Margaret Atwood
There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
~ Margaret Atwood
I have an uneasy feeling, as if something's buried down there, a nameless, crucial thing, or as if there's someone still on the bridge, left by mistake, up in the air, unable to get to the land. But it's obvious there's no one.
~ Margaret Atwood
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
~ Henrik Ibsen
In a growing relationship, however, the original essence is not lost but merely buried under the impedimenta of life.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time. I am a vampire. My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy.
~ Anne Rice
They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.
~ Anne Rice
would want to make a pilgrimage to the place where her mother had spent her final, peaceful days, to the spot where she was buried. She could see the good that Stella's money was doing, make peace with what the courts
~ Anne Stuart
In a way," I told Peggy, "it's like the grief has been covered over with some
~ Anne Tyler
Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Love has been buried forever under the leaves at my feet. I lie down on the ground and rest my head on my bag. The grass tickles my arms where I bend the stalks under my neck. I want to sleep.
~ Shan Sa
They have demons on Antarctica?" "Yeah," Ash breathed. "It wasn't always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
~ Rob Lowe
you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...
~ John Geddes
But the personal feeling is nearer with most of us than the tenderest feeling for another; and my family had been so accustomed to the idea of my living on and on in that room, that while my heart was eating itself, their love for me was consoled, and at last the evil grew scarcely perceptible. It was no want of love in them, and quite natural in itself: we all get used to the thought of a tomb; and I was buried, that was the whole.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He blinked, voice grinding if the words were buried somewhere very deep and he had to go after them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Galileo died in 1642. He was buried in Florence in the Church of Santa Croce, directly opposite the tomb of Michelangelo. This is only right, since together they had remade the Renaissance world in a distinctly Platonist frame.
~ Arthur Herman
it buried between the fastenings of a Frenchman's corselet. Which is actually not a bad end for a fine dagger like that one.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
What's for dinner?" "Roast beef. I heard it was a woman's body buried on Hamilton Ranch and that her body had been mummified." "Roast beef and mummified should never be used in the same sentence," he joked as he headed toward the refrigerator for a beer.
~ B.J. Daniels
Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. —1 Corinthians 15:43
~ Gary Chapman
My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
~ Samuel Beckett
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.
~ John Keats
Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?
~ Alice Eve