Graves Quotes - Page 4

• Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

  Thomas Otway

  Beggar

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266

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• O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Mind, Heart And Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1384, 谷月社

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• My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Feet, Acting, Bananas

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• Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

  Robert Graves

  Dark, Space, Shining

  Robert Graves (1997). “Complete Poems”

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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• Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Will Harvey

  Today, Tomorrow, Pessimist

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• One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

  Pierre Corneille

  Half, Other Half, One Half

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1636.

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• May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

  Frank R. Stockton

  Over You, Growing, May

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• The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

  August Tholuck

  Mountain, World, Standing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 291, 1895.

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• The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Angel, Tears

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Night, Light

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Personality, Fascination, States

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• Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

  Tim Robbins

  Running, Men, Wanted

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• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fear, Angel

  Edward Young (1760). “The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young”, p.4

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Danger, Armament, Pacifist

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• Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Wit, Tombs

  'Plays' (1662) p. 525

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• The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

  Thomas Southerne

  Death, Lying, Together

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• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, World, Easy

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• In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

  Robert Duvall

  Journey, Cradle, Hereafter

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