Grave Quotes

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

I was not desirous of shrinking of any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I desired the grave.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.