Graves Quotes - Page 29

• Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

  John Donne

  Heaven, Soul, Body

  1611 'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary'.

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• Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.17, FV Éditions

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• I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

  Diana Nyad

  Swimming, Thinking, Florida

  "Diana Nyad's impossible dream should be saluted, not scorned" by Jill Homer, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

  Robert Southey

  Eternity, Unendurable, Threshold

  Robert Southey (1799). “Poems”, p.30

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• Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

  Earl Warren

  War, Voice, Justice

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Heartbroken, Catholic, Dogma

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• [T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

  Georges Bernanos

  Cradle

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.244, U of Nebraska Press

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• [Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

  Eric Clapton

  Son, Preparation, Cost

  Eric Clapton (2010). “Eric Clapton: The Autobiography”, p.278, Random House

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• How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Littles, Invention

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.445

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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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• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fall, Men, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Men, Venture

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6747, Delphi Classics

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• I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

  Charles Lamb

  Wall, Tired, Air

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Ambition, Men, Primitive Man

  "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), December 4, 1893.

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• Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, West, Forget

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

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• I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

  Maurice Baring

  Wise, Pain, Brave

  Maurice Baring (1909). “Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Life Is, Heavy

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Destiny, Views

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Empires, Dominion

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press

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• Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .

  Stephen Spender

  Light, Years, Feet

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.287, Faber & Faber

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• What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

  Stephen Spender

  Morning, Spring, Simple

  "Poems (I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

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• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

  Edward Coke

  Prayer, Sleep, Law

  Translation of a quotation taken by Coke from Justinian 'The Pandects' (or 'Digest') bk. 2, ch. 4 'De in Jus Vocando'.

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• If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

  Michael Servetus

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

  Louis Simpson

  Rome, America, Weight

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.196, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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