Graveyard Quotes

• 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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• Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, Found, Perpetual

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

  Arthur Lynch

  People, Optimism, Cheerful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• In war, truth is the first casualty.

  Aeschylus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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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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• I used to work the graveyard shift.

  Bradley Cooper

  Used

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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 do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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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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• 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 am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fall, Adventure, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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