Cemetery Quotes - Page 4

• Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

  Allen West

  Country, Memorial Day, Ignored

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• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Science, Ideas, Issues

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.152, tredition

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• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

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• The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Kings, Wings, Crow

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• The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

  George Jean Nathan

  Flower, Theatre, Doe

  George Jean Nathan (1921). “The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls”

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• Snow has turned the world into a cemetery.
  But the world already was a cemetery
  and the snow has only come to announce it.

  Roberto Juarroz

  Snow, World

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• There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

  Beverly Sills

  People, Awful, Skinny

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• The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Indispensable, Filled

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• Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

  Everett Dirksen

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

  Jenny Lawson

  Texas, Parent, Goes On

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• You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

  Ed Furgol

  Inspirational, Clever, Golf

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• The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Memories, Lying, Grief

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• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Military, Leader, World

  Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.423, Univ of California Press

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Fighting, Europe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hate, People, Driving

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• It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

  John Scalzi

  Missing, Alive, Easier

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.13, Macmillan

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• True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Memories, Thinking, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2002). “Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, p.280, Forge Books

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• little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Running, Dog

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.308, Zondervan

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• I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon, Long, Worms

  Charles Baudelaire, “Spleen (Ii)”

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• I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

  George Carlin

  Military, America, Soldier

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• In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

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• I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

  David Rubenstein

  Want, Rich, Persons

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