Grave Quotes
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Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.
Eaton Stannard Barrett -
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
Miguel de Cervantes -
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
Frank Richard Stockton -
Love is a grave mental illness.
Plato -
I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.
Georges Brassens -
Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
Blind Lemon Jefferson -
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.
Wilfrid Hyde-White
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I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
Ian Paisley -
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
Leon Trotsky -
You can't make a grave move with 60 laps to go. It's a lack of patience, ... If a guy is not in the points, he doesn't have to take your points away. He went from hero to zero -- to be in the pole position and then to make a move like he did.
Helio Castroneves -
The English peace is the peace of the grave.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere -
You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.
Evan Bayh -
You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.
Alice Cooper -
I shall be as secret as the grave.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Seneca the Younger -
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.
Else Lasker-Schuler
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Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Tim Ferriss -
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.
Victor Hugo -
The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.
August Tholuck