Buried Quotes

• 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.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Best
  • Happiness

• Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Forever
  • Advantage
  • Buried

• I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

  

  William Gibson
  • Punk
  • Cyberpunk
  • Projectile

• There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Stories
  • Tree
  • Buried

• How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.

  

  Sarah Parcak
  • City
  • Landscape
  • Buried

• It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Last
  • Buried

• This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Inside
  • Pieces

• The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Future
  • Present
  • Contemplation

• To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Know
  • Treasure

• I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record 2016. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Attention
  • Playing
  • Record

• My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Beautiful
  • Albums
  • Funeral

• Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  

  Will Harvey
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Pessimist

• In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  

  Eileen Simpson
  • Grief
  • Dead
  • Spirits

• Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Buried

• We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Facts
  • Rich
  • Buried

• The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Done
  • Together
  • Loyalty

• I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Expected
  • Buried
  • Foreheads

• Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Buried

• Success is buried on the other side of frustration; unfortunately some people don't do what it takes to get to the other side.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Success
  • Frustration
  • Buried

• Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • America
  • Lost
  • Contribution

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