Quotes About Grave

Is that a riddle? Or a serious question?' 'Yes.' The Fool was grave.

the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon

Luz nodded back with equal gravity, thinking for a moment of the Lion of Chaeronea sitting its long watch over the bones of the Sacred Band of Thebes, where they had stood to meet the charge of Alexander the Great and won the hero's privilege of a common grave. Stood, and died in their tracks to the last man—to the last pair of erastês and erômenos, lover and beloved, their locked shields facing the Macedonian lances side by side.

In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told!

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Round every knob and cushion in the house sentiment gathered, a sentiment that was at times personal, but more often a faint piety to the dead, a prolongation of rites that might have ended at the grave.

The story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.

Six forest trees — that is a fact — grow out of one of the graves in Tewin churchyard. The grave's occupant — that is the legend — is an atheist, who declared that if God existed, six forest trees would grow out of her grave. These things in Hertfordshire; and farther afield lay the house of a hermit — Mrs. Wilcox had known him — who barred himself up, and wrote prophecies, and gave all he had to the poor.

Each wife who has been through the Temple has a secret name that only her husband and she know. He uses this to call her out of the grave on the day of resurrection; and there seems to be no remedy for her if he purposely or forgetfully fails to do so.

I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds,Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln.

Mine is a body that should die at sea! And have for a grave, instead of a grave Six feet deep and the length of me, All the water that is under the wave! And terrible fishes to seize my flesh, Such as a living man might fear, And eat me while I am firm and fresh, - Not wait till I've been dead for a year!

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

The potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.

It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realised it might lead only to the grave.