Graveyard Quotes

• Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, Found, Perpetual

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• Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

  Ivan Klíma

  Death, Vanity, Endeavour

  Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press

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• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

  Samuel Beckett

  Death, Air, Dying

  First Love (1973) p. 8

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• The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Song, Book

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• Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Song, Book, Simple

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• My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Life, Hope, Perfect

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.36, e-artnow

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• Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

  Tim Burton

  Dark, People, Creepy

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  You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Mean, Alive

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.109, A&C Black

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• Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Faces

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• Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Pain, Birth

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• You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Life Changing, Can Do

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• They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

  Conor Oberst

  Sad, Spring, Sleep

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• Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  People, Optimism, Cheerful

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• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  First Love (1973) p. 8

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• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fear, Contagious

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.115, A&C Black

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• In war, truth is the first casualty.

  Aeschylus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

  Calvin Coolidge

  Friendship, Moving, College

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• I used to work the graveyard shift.

  Bradley Cooper

  Used

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• Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Opinion, Achieve

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

  Whitey Herzog

  Thank You, Night, Light

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Education, Fear

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Sick, Firsts

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• New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

  Neil Kinnock

  Loyalty, Political, Quality

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