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Quotes About Grave

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
~ Edward Bellamy
Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784
~ Unknown
Usually the walk home from the Swan was a time for regret—regret that his joints ached so badly, that he had drunk too much, that the best of life had passed him by and he had only aches and pains ahead of him now, a gradual decline till at the end he would sink into the grave.
~ Diane Setterfield
Death is a solemn thing, and never so much so as when we see it close at hand. The grave is a chilling, heart-sickening place, and it is vain to pretend it has no terrors.
~ J.C. Ryle
We must ask them to lay their hands on their hearts and tell us whether their favorite opinions comfort them in the day of sickness, in the hour of death, by the bedside of dying parents, by the grave of a beloved wife or child. We
~ J.C. Ryle
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he'll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don't see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far down below / on his bed of dirt from grave / from his dank and silent cave / he watches you yet has no sight / he taketh you away at night
~ Jack Goldstein
Immortality is here and now, and is not a speculative something beyond the grave. It is a lucid state of consciousness in which the sensations of the body, the varying and unrestful states of mind, and the circumstances and events of life are seen to be of a fleeting and therefore of an illusory character.
~ James Allen
Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.
~ Lynsay Sands
When he was dead, his body was cremated. The remains were thrown in a ditch marked "Common Grave Number One — unclaimed ashes 1930–42 inclusive.
~ Unknown
From Plots and Treasons Heaven preserve my years, But Save me most from my Petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren Womb or Grave; God cannot Grant so much as they can Crave.
~ John Dryden
INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU,'" he'd said over my mother's grave; and so I say that one for him—I know it was one of his favorites. I am always saying prayers for Owen Meany. And
~ John Irving
TAKE ALMOST ANYTHING FROM JUDE THE OBSCURE. HOW ABOUT THAT TERRIBLE LITTLE PRAYER THAT JUDE REMEMBERS FALLING ASLEEP TO, WHEN HE WAS A CHILD? "TEACH ME TO LIVE, THAT I MAY DREAD "THE GRAVE AS LITTLE AS MY BED. "TEACH ME TO DIE
~ John Irving
I wish you could infuse a little confidence of human nature into my heart. I cannot muster any -- the world is too brutal for me -- I am glad there is such a thing as the grave -- I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
~ John Keats
Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
~ Padgett Powell
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
~ Blaise Pascal
Please don't worry, I am doing fine. You're much too busy to even find the time, so use your chemicals and take this to your grave, the boys you left are men you didn't raise.
~ Unknown
They asked 'do you love her to death?' I said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
They asked, "do you love her to death?" I said, "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
they asked "do you love her to death? i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life
~ Mahmoud Darwish
The mystery of the evergreen marking the grave of the dead sun god is also perpetuated in the Christmas tree.
~ Unknown
Deadly force is authorized when there is an immediate and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent.
~ Marc MacYoung
Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.
~ John Milton
Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious To all the miseries of life.
~ John Milton