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Quotes About Burial

Ignoro de dónde salió el manido «descanse en paz». Dudo que tú reposes en tu tumba, porque a veces te escucho moverte, como que no terminas de hallarte en tu sepulcro. Yo tampoco. En los muertos nos queda aún una efervescencia, un burbujeo que puede confundirse con los gases que expelemos. No, son riadas de vida que todavía corren por nuestras arterias. Tardan en secarse. Se lleva una eternidad dejar la vida atrás.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.
~ James Hollis
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
~ James Joyce
They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Ulysses
~ James Joyce
They have no mercy on that here or infanticide. Refuse christian burial. They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already.
~ James Joyce
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
~ Harold Brodkey
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
~ Widad Akreyi
When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the same, a portion of which is inhabited. Memory is the overwhelming theme, the eventual comfort.
~ Thomas Lynch
This is Prue's funeral, can't we bury our sister in peace?!
~ Constance M. Burge
and he knew that he would not be buried in this valley but in some distant place among strangers
~ Cormac McCarthy
White Was he killed? Black I hope so. We buried him.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
~ Dale Carnegie
We buried my husband, Claude, today, finally. Me and Belinda Jean. His emphysema took him nine days ago, but the wake and funeral had to be put off because of the flood. McPadden's Funeral Parlor was in the water's path.
~ Wally Lamb
And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied.
~ Walt Whitman
A large stone was then lowered down on the grave, and covered the moderate space now sufficient for the man for whom Europe was once too little.
~ Walter Scott
Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried. Joel: Where? Clem: Hide me in your humiliation.
~ Charlie Kaufman
They were much surprised that we were still burying—asked our reasons for it, and were much dissatisfied with what we gave. We told them of the belief in the resurrection of the body, and they asked if our God was not able to resurrect from ashes as from long corruption. We told them of how people thought it repugnant to have their loved ones burn, and they asked if it was less repugnant to have them decay. They were inconveniently reasonable, those women.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I think I'll pull through. And if I don't…do me a favor and bury me in the forest. That's romantic. Funerals are a maximum pain in the ass.
~ Chet Williamson
Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure
~ Lemony Snicket
Badger nodded towards the trenches. "Woolley and the rest of 'em dig to uncover past civilizations. We dig to bury our own.
~ Jan Struther
He'd known where he was going to end up. The pyre was just a fantasy. Whatever he did, he couldn't have escaped this rectangular hole in the ground, this pile of dirt covered by its blanket of Astroturf. If she'd married him, she would be buried in there, and if they'd had a baby, their child too. There was some ming for you. There was some fucking destiny.
~ Janet Fitch
Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.
~ Deadmau5
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
~ Caitlin Doughty
At first graves were dug for the dead, but then they were just left where they had died. Eventually those who worked for the local administration were taken to the nearby town.
~ Tim Judah