Graveyard Quotes - Page 5

• A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Cities, Library

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• When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Hate, Tombstone, Stories

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series”, p.158, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eater’s hood, and last heard that man’s voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

  Isaac Marion

  Eerie, Civilization, Cities

  Isaac Marion (2013). “The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies”, p.22, Random House

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• At six
  I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
  avoiding myself,
  my body, the suspect
  in its grotesque house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Childhood, Dolls

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• Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

  Michael Cunningham

  Men, People, Want

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• I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.

  Bob Marley

  Animal, Men, Body

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• Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

  Mark Udall

  Ideas, Reform, Committed

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• Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Boys, Bad Boy, Peanuts

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Cities, Want

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• The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Block, Flower, Brutality

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• At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

  Beth Orton

  Sibling, Drinking, Kissing

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, World, Resurrection

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press

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• It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Animal, Body

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• Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, California, Southern

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there are only a few living people in that frame, all sorts of interesting and difficult technical problems arise. And then form - new form, or experimental form - might be understood as just trying to tell that story most movingly and efficiently.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Pride, Men, Prejudice

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• Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Grass, Thirty

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• If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ifs

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• All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Buchenwald, Dachau

  "The Twilight Zone (Deaths-Head Revisited)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 10, 1961.

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• Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?" - Cat to Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Bottles, Want

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• Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Memories, Animal

  Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “A Book of Famous Dogs”, p.79, Read Books Ltd

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• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Men, Style

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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