Grave Quotes

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boomWords and flags folding, folding, foldedThe knell tolls ding ding ding ding ....

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

There is an end to everything.

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

I'd rather dig my own grave than rot in the sun.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?

The house appointed for all living.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

You know, " he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.