sepulcher Quotes

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.