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Quotes About Burial

The young woman continued to frown, displaying her irritation. 'You would continue on and leave one of our brethren in this manner? Unblessed and unburied?' Her voice was sharp and angry.
~ Peter Tremayne
I have need of a knife to cut our brother down,' she explained. 'We must pray for his soul and accord him a Christian burial.' The others cast uneasy glances at each other.
~ Peter Tremayne
she married a laborer named Charles Freeman and then promptly poisoned him and her son for the twenty-pound payout from a burial club she had enrolled them
~ Peter Vronsky
I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver
~ Phil Harris
Cousin Mike, the person most people believe put Richard on the path he traveled, died of a massive heart attack in April of 1995. He was overweight and still haunted by the ghosts of things he'd done in Vietnam, regularly using heroin. The Army gave Mike a hero's burial with a twenty-one-gun salute.
~ Philip Carlo
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
~ Sam Trammell
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
~ Jon Meacham
For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.
~ Jonathan Coe
Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing, though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be a room to bury anyone anymore?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Isn't it weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
No není to divné, jak poÃ…â"¢ád roste po?et mrtvých, a?koli ZemÄ› je poÃ…â"¢ád stejná, takže jednou už nezbude v?bec žádné místo, kam by nÄ›kdo dal pohÃ…â"¢bít?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Isaac was buried in a pocketless shroud, six hundred yards from his wife of two hundred thousand hours.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Dünya hep ayn? kal?rken ölen insan say?s?n?n artmas? ve günün birinde kimseyi gömecek yer kalmayacak olmas? tuhaf deÄŸil mi?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Rendez-moi les cahiers. Je vais les enterrer quelque part dans la forêt. — Oui, enterrez-les. Ou, mieux encore, brûlez-les. C'est la seule solution pour que personne ne puisse les lire.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Mary Magdalene is recorded in the Gospels as present at the Crucifixion and at Christ's burial, and to have gone, with other women, to the tomb on Easter morning. She is the first to have learned the tomb was empty. She heard from an angel that Christ had been raised. She is the first person to have seen Jesus after his resurrection. She is the first to have proclaimed Jesus was raised from the dead. She plays a central place in Jesus's ministry.
~ Adam Hamilton
In a hole in the ground, a man lay extremely dead.
~ Adam Rutherford
Archaeology reveals that about one out of three or four nomad women of the steppes was an active warrior buried with her weapons.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Sekarang, kepalaku membayangkan kuburan, tempat manusia yang terakhir. Tapi kadang-kadang manusia tak mendapat tempat dalam kandungan bumi. Ya, kadang-kadang. Pelaut, prajurit di zaman perang, sering mereka tak mendapat tempat tinggal terakhir. Dalam kepalaku membayangkan, kalau ayah yang tak mendapatkan tempat itu.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Dead things should be buried and not eaten.
~ Sharon Needles
Don't bury me with anyone old.
~ Tiny Tim