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Quotes About Grave

What if I don't want an unwilling bridegroom, a pretender to the crown, who won his throne through disloyalty and betrayal? What if I tell you that my heart is in an unmarked grave somewhere in Leicester?" She
~ Philippa Gregory
In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.
~ Phillipa Gregory
I gabbed Ivy's arm. Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone. We both stared into the gray light. Oh, noooo, I moaned. I watched, trembling in horror as someone climbed out of a grave.
~ R.L. Stine
Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.
~ Dean Koontz
No one could make a fool of himself in dying, regardless of his delusions; life was the stage for fools, and no one earned mockery by going to his grave.
~ Dean Koontz
For there is a time in the tide of the heart, when Arrived at its anchor of suffering, a grave Or a bed, despairing in action, we ask O God, where is our home?
~ Derek Walcott
No, how should I fear the touch of those vanished hands laid on me in love knowing? How could I be afraid of those that molded my flesh, leaving their remnants to live long past the grave?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Message Out of the corpse-warm foyer of the sky steps the sun. There it is not the immortals, but rather the fallen, we perceive. And brilliance doesn't trouble itself with decay. Our Godhead, History, has ordered for us a grave from which there is no resurrection.
~ Unknown
If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end? - he asks, anxious to hear the story.
~ Italo Calvino
Tutte belle cose, però io avevo l'impressione che in quel tempo mio fratello non solo fosse del tutto ammattito, ma andasse anche un poco imbeliccendosi, cosa questa più grave e dolorosa, perché la pazzia è una forza della natura nel male o nel bene, mentre la minchioneria è una debolezza della natura, senza contropartita.
~ Italo Calvino
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
~ J. K. Rowling
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave.
~ Unknown
Samo je grob ?ovekov kolevka bogova.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
Once more do I warn thee,' answered the old man with undisturbed composure, "Wake not the dead" — let her rest.' 'Aye, but not in the cold grave: she shall rather rest on this bosom which burns with eagerness to clasp her.
~ Ludwig Tieck
Blessed Cross! Blessed grave! Blessed rather be    The Man who there was put to shame for me.
~ John Bunyan
you dwell, said he, in the city of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.
~ John Bunyan
So it shall be with thee when thou dost leave this world.  This did sweetly revive my spirit, and help me to hope in God; which when I had with comfort mused on a while, that word fell with great weight upon my mind, O death, where is thy sting?  O grave, where is thy victory?  1 Cor. xv. 55.  At this I became both well in body and mind at once, for my sickness did presently vanish, and I walked comfortably in my work for God again.
~ John Bunyan
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
~ Emily Bronte
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
~ William Davenant
No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
~ William Shakespeare
You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave
~ Munia Khan
Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.
~ Unknown
All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.
~ Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon