Graveyard Quotes

• 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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• every heart has its graveyard.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Heart, Sorrow

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• Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, Found, Perpetual

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Trying, Sentimental

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.4172, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Arthur Lynch

  People, Optimism, Cheerful

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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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• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  First Love (1973) p. 8

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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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• 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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• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hands, Knives, Darkness

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.5, A&C Black

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• There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

  Adah Isaacs Menken

  Spring, Grief, Flower

  Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

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• There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Battle, Foxholes

  Message to Congress on proposed civil rights bill, 19 June 1963

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• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  Gary Larson

  Musician, Stores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, Race, White

  Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963

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