Burial Quotes

Burial Quote of the day

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

The burial of feelings has begun.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be proud of what you have achieved through devolution.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war

Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds.