Graves Quotes - Page 36

• The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

  Thomas Campbell

  Bravery, Munich, Chivalry

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.161

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• The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Presidential, Intimidation, Crime

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Self, Ego

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.337, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Build castles, don't dig graves.

  David J. Schwartz

  Castles

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.58, Penguin

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• You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

  Frank McCourt

  Age, Staring, Feels

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• And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

  Kevin Barry

  Children, Acceptance, Views

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• The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Alive, Body

  'Procrastination'

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• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
  The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
  And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
  Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Clouds, Air

  George Gordon Byron, “Darkness”

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• It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Religious, Military, War

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• The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

  Robert Blair

  Fear, Men, Firmness

  Robert Blair (1826). “Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew”, p.9

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• Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Art, Majestic

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

  James Thurber

  Ambition, Feet, Slave

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

  James Thurber

  May, Path, Glory

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.585, Library of America

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• So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.

  Francis Thompson

  Essence, Simplicity, Soul

  Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.14, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Sea, Sky

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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

  Lord Byron

  Tears, Dies

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• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Degrees, Sacred

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• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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

  Lord Byron

  Grief, And Love, Apparel

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

  Lord Byron

  Men, May

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

  Adam Smith

  Desire, Principles, Womb

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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• See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

  John Webster

  Children, Tears, Cold

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.2.

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• There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

  James Montgomery

  Lying, Sleep, Calm

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.304

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• Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

  James Montgomery

  Memories, Night, Years

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”, p.171

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• Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

  William Watson

  Joy, Earnest, Solemn

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