Quotes About Grave

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

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

Life is real. life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

"Fair and foul are near of kin,And fair needs foul," I cried."My friends are gone, but that's a truthNor grave nor bed denied."

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)

I can tell you that tonight in Des Moines, Iowa, my home town, people all across the city will be putting a hand to their ears and saying "What is that sound?", and it will be the sound of Mr De Vito, my High School Careers Officer, spinning in his grave.

So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan which movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one that wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis

The grave was never intended to be a sanctuary to defend sinners from the hand of justice, but a close prison to secure them against the day of trial, that they may be forthcoming.

That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

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

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.