Graves Quotes

• There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Business, Positive Thinking

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Crowns, Laziness

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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• A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Soul, Pithy, Found

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• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

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• Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

  Al Gore

  New Relationship, Civilization, Faces

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• To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he wrote an utterly untypical work, a blast from his Id that may well have killed him. Even now, with misogyny disguised as racial justice, its venom remains potent and disturbing, in equal parts appalling and riveting. It is a singular book, not for the squeamish, and not to be passed by.

  Jim Krusoe

  Book, Long, Justice

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• The grave has a door on its inner side.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Doors, Sides

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.100

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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  Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Song, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  Nathaniel Parker

  Work, May, Devices

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• The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Common, Treasury

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• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Clothes, Embroidery, Suits

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• Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Gravestone, Forty

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Sleep, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.49

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• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Age, Ugly

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• Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

  Torquato Tasso

  Courage, Men, Years

  Torquato Tasso, Leigh Hunt (1851). “Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done Into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso”, p.13

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• The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Death, Dance, Animal

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• Never the grave gives back what it has won!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Giving Back

  "Funeral Fantasy" by Friedrich Schiller,

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• If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

  James Connolly

  Spirit, Republican, Prison

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Borders

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Hair, Leaves Of Grass

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

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• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Life Is

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

  John Evelyn

  Flower, Men, Roots

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• I think Ill take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

  Just Fontaine

  Thinking, Goal, Records

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• We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

  Christine Keeler

  Talking, Spy, Digging

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