Quotes About Cemetery
The dead here seem really dead, and bone lonely, unlike the graves in Italian cemeteries, bedecked with fresh flowers, red votive lights, and photos of the deceased. I always imagine that they must rise at night and visit among themselves, the way they used to in the piazza. I did cry over Absalom, Absalom!
~ Frances Mayes
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Mir war auf dem Friedhof besser als in der Stadt, es hielt auch an. ich gieng lange durch die Stadt wie durch einen Friedhof.
~ Franz Kafka
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
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Do you think it's a bad omen to meet in a cemetery?" she asked him. "I have a special fondness for this place," he said. "This is exactly where you completely lost control, threw yourself at me and passionately kissed me. I like it here." "I think I surprised myself more than you," she said. "Impossible. I thought I'd have to chase you for years before I got a kiss.
~ Robyn Carr
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The cemetery, my dear. The repository of the deceased. The tomb … the vault … the crypt … the resting place … the ossuary. Dig? Boot Hill, baby." Pamela
~ Rod Serling
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And so to be afraid of entering the cemetery by night was to fear not the loving ancestors who lay buried, but the gut kick of our history, which I was bracing to absorb. The old cemetery was filled with its complications.
~ Louise Erdrich
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Bueno, otra esperanza que se pierde. Mi vida es un perfecto cementerio de esperanzas muerta<<
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Bueno, otra esperanza que se pierde. Mi vida es un perfecto cementerio de esperanzas muertas.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
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And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.
~ Saul Bellow
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I read poetry. My head filled with rhythms and rhymes. In my crystalline awareness I would often go and lie down under one of the giant oaks in the vast tranquillity of the nearby Arlington Cemetery, where I would watch the squirrels flying from branch to branch in the trees. I felt so serene. I felt so well. My soul grew happy in that cemetery. I wanted to stay all day.
~ Elaine Dundy
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Cosa fanno le persone importanti in un cimitero? Dormono, anche loro dormono uguale uguale alle persone che non contarono un cazzo. E tutti nella stessa posizione: orizzontali. L'eternità è orizzontale.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
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People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
~ Aristide Briand
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Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and trudged up the hillside to a new grave. She stood there for a moment, humming to herself, then removed a joint from a tortoise-shell cigarette case and laid it gently on the grave. "Have fun," she smiled. "It's Colombian.
~ Armistead Maupin
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Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.
~ Henry IV
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I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'
~ Lee Trevino
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He said the citizens worship a guy what massacred a dozen men and the cemetery owner ain't buried nobody in fifty years. I said okay where are we? Rube said son don't you get the drift? I shook my head. Rube leaned toward me. His voice was hoarse with horror. He said why boy we is in Hell!
~ Ross H. Spencer
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The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.
~ Margaret Atwood
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There was a weight to the emptiness of rooms in which you had once lived that was more fearsome than anything she had ever encountered in life, not because they were haunted, as she had joked with Skip Cuddy, but because they were not. The conversations, the quarrels, the long fraught silences, the tears: they had disappeared utterly and completely. A cemetery was a place intended to be still. It was here, where once there had been life
~ Anna Quindlen
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His next book, One Foot in the Grave, focused on his time working in the cemetery. It laid out in graphic detail every aspect of burying bodies, using Chad's firsthand experience. Later, murder investigators would comb through it to see if he had utilized his unusual expertise.
~ John Glatt
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When people asked about Hush Arbor, this was the place they meant: the cemetery, the old houses, the hanging tree. Few understood how large it really was.
~ John Hart
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While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
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They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
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Le cimetière se trouvait à six cents mètres de son extrémité, mais le bruit des avions ne dérangerait guère les défunts — pour ce que peuvent en savoir des vivants n'ayant encore aucune expérience personnelle de la question.
~ Arto Paasilinna
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Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
~ Author Unknown
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