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Quotes About Graveyard

Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?
~ Thomas Pynchon
However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.
~ C.J. Sansom
Ghastek stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, sipping coffee from a white mug that read, Graveyard Shift: We do it in the dark.
~ Ilona Andrews
I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
~ Boyd Holbrook
You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
~ Alexander Cockburn
My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.
~ Suzanne Collins
They don't know they are playing on a grave yard.
~ Suzanne Collins
How many kids are in the Graveyard? A bunch. Who sends your supplies? George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget. How often do you receive new arrivals? About as often as you beat your wife.
~ Neal Shusterman
Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.
~ Neal Shusterman
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
~ Charles Bukowski
Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
~ Chinua Achebe
thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves.
~ Toni Morrison
The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher. There was grief over the waste of life, the stunned wonder at the ways of God, and the restoration of order in nature at the graveyard.
~ Toni Morrison
Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as an Edinburgh gentleman might look upon a Yankee with a single Scots grandparent who swathes himself in kilts and tartan sashes, prefaces every remark with quotes from Burns or Scott and affects a fondness for bagpipes and haggis.
~ Kim Newman
She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps.
~ Tana French
Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space. If they're correct, then the hush of the night sky is the silence of the graveyard.
~ Ted Chiang
The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.
~ Ted Chiang
The Fermi Paradox is sometimes known as the Great Silence. The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet. Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space. If they're correct, then the hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.
~ Ted Chiang
Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space. If they're correct, then the hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.
~ Ted Chiang
Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.
~ Christopher Rice
A graveyard of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine.
~ L. M. Montgomery
He rests in the graveyard of Ivry a suburb that always looks like the day the carnival comes down. And perhaps only I still know that he was alive".
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed
~ Munia Khan