Buried Quotes
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And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.
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I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
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In fact, the tunnel curves between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations because it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains buried in Hyde Park.
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In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
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It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."
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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.
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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.
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He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
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She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.
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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
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I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
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It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
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We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
