Graves Quotes - Page 5

• I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

  Matthew Simpson

  Safe, Friends Again, Knows

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Lonely, Heart

  "Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

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• [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Lying, Loss

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

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• First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Faith, Mistake, Believe

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• I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Fighting, Practice

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.416, Princeton University Press

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• I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 - I never thought I'd see that here. Then, losing 100 games seemed like a possibility, then 90 games. All of those things could have been a reality here. The grave seemed like a reality here, but the guys didn't let it happen.

  Felipe Alou

  Reality, Games, Guy

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  Military, War, Sleep

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

  Rachel Caine

  Ice Cream, Hands, Want

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• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Flower, People

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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Animal, Men

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• I'll perform all the way to the grave.

  Patti LaBelle

  Way

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012

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• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  Abigail Adams

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

  Francis Bacon

  God, Exercise, Intelligent

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Selfish, Laughing

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• I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Engagement, Married

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• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Time, Thinking

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• Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Perspective, Fancy, Hell

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Birthday, Time

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• And by a prudent flight and cunning save
  A life which valour could not, from the grave.
  A better buckler I can soon regain,
  But who can get another life again?

  Archilochus

  Life, Prudent, Flight

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• Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Long, Laughing, Pleasure

  Thomas De Quincey, Robert Morrison (2013). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

  Charles Ruff

  Office, Causes, Danger

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• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Father, Men

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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