Quotes About Gravestones

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and gravestones are mossy and chipped, and the letters wear down with the wind and the rain so everyone gets forgotten in time, and life flies on.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

There were traces of history everywhere—in street names, on inn signs, in old tracks and ancient hedgerows, buried walls and tumbled gravestones. Scratch the surface and it was there.

Le lapidi erano banali, parevano chiedere scusa ai defunti.