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Quotes About Burial

other brave get …" He gave Boone's head a sharp, possessive pat and straightened up. "Dance finish. You take dead braves, plasstic. Put in ground." "Little Bear, I can't now. I must go with Emma. Did—did you see her? She—she saw you. I have to make sure she—helps, and doesn't tell.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
~ Madeline Miller
Will I feel his ashes as they fall against mine? I think of the snowflakes on Pelion, cold on our red cheeks. The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me. Somewhere his soul waits, but it is nowhere I can reach. Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.
~ Madeline Miller
Os encomiendo una misión para después de mi muerte: mezclar nuestras cenizas y enterrarnos juntos.
~ Madeline Miller
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.
~ Madeline Miller
Somewhere his soul waits, but it is nowhere I can reach. Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
~ Madeline Miller
If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.
~ John Grisham
in the morning." "Do oak, forget that bronze and copper crap. We buried Momma last year in oak and it was the prettiest damned thang I'd ever seen. Magargel can get one out of Tupelo in two hours. And forget the vault, too. They're just rip-offs. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bury 'em and let 'em rot is the only way to go. The Episcopalians do it right." Ray was a little dazed by the torrent of advice, but was thankful nonetheless.
~ John Grisham
Jack wouldn't have wanted to be buried there. If you were lying in that graveyard, facing south, you would be looking at an ugly seventeen-story high-rise for the rest of your death.
~ John Irving
At Owen Meany's burial, one of Owen's Sunday school classmates remembers how easy he was to lift up. "He was so light—he weighed nothing at all! How could he have been so light?" Because God already had His hands on him—that's how.
~ John Irving
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
~ Eric Bogosian
Somewhere his soul waits, but it is nowhere I can reach. Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.
~ Madeline Miller
A su muerte, Aquiles enterraría con él todas las cosas veloces, hermosas y luminosas.
~ Madeline Miller
Incinera mi cuerpo y dame sepultura. Te estaré esperando entre las sombras.
~ Madeline Miller
if anything sinister should befall him', his body was to be returned to Chester-le-Street for burial near St Cuthbert,
~ Unknown
They buried him, but all through the night of mourning, in the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels with outspread wings and seemed for him who was no more; the symbol of his resurrection
~ Marcel Proust
His neck felt like sandpaper. If ring around the collar were a terminal disease, they'd be burying him.
~ John Sandford
That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.
~ John Steinbeck
Full fathom five thy father lies
~ William Shakespeare
she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.
~ Marcel Proust
A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
~ James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life
~ Book of Common Prayer
Snowfall" Watching snow cover the ground, cover itself, cover everything that is not you, you see it is the downward drift of light upon the sound of air sweeping away the air, it is the fall of moments into moments, the burial of sleep, the down of winter, the negative of night.
~ Mark Strand