Quotes About Grave

I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Those who Crave are sure to take disappointments to their Grave.

The consolation I drew from her words may even have had, much later, far-reaching and grave consequences for me,

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

My father used to say,"Superior people never make long visits,have to be shown Longfellow's graveor the glass flowers at Harvard."

As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.")

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

jealousy is the grave of affection

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Every exhalation is an expulsion of some part of our finite store of life, and also a sigh of relief that the grave is closer by one tedious, depressing pulse...Each time we breathe, we fear that it's our last breath and it will chill us all the way to the void.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

The numerous gods of yore, divested of their magic and hence assuming the shape of impersonal forces, arise from their graves, strive for power over our lives, and resume their eternal struggle among themselves.

I strained to hear a voice from that stone, or grave, as if beneath it were hidden the secret of life and death. I sat on the cliff's edge, above the endless forests and crags and listened to the snakelike hissing of the mountain wind, in a twofold wasteland of loneliness and nonexistence, like the ancient corpse under the slab.