Top 58 Bury The Dead Quotes
#1. Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.
Robert Bloch
#2. Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?
Ben Okri
#4. If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. "Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Andre Gide
#7. There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.
Harper Lee
#8. Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.
Bob Dylan
#9. Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
Arundhati Roy
#10. Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
James Joyce
#11. But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
William Bradford
#12. Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
Marilyn Monroe
#13. I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
Phyllis Diller
#14. We never bury the dead, son. Not really. We take them with us. It's the price of living.
C. Henry Parrish
#16. So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#17. Isn't it weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy! thought
Leo Tolstoy
#19. You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.
Stephenie Meyer
#20. Why don't they embed the dead in blocks of plate glass and bury them in crypts beneath transparent floors? In that way, the deceased would easily be able to see God for themselves, and He to see them,
Alan Bradley
#21. The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them ...
Enrich M. Remarque
#22. This was trouble
of the bury-your-dead variety.
J.R. Ward
#23. Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Mike Schmidt
#24. You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. You should bury more than the dead.
You should try harder.
You should give up.
Olena Kalytiak Davis
#27. We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
#28. First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes - and then begin to tell their story.
Nina George
#29. The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever.
Georgina Gentry
#30. The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
Jefferson Davis
#31. If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.
Ronald Reagan
#32. Sweetheart, I'll be a Marine 'til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now.
Dee Tenorio
#33. Max had said two things to Jean during their good-byes. First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes--and then begin to tell their story. "Remain silent about the dead, and they'll never leave you in peace.
Nina George
#34. My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!
Emily Carr
#35. One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead
William R. Trotter
#36. Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.
John Carroll
#37. Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?
Jeff VanderMeer
#38. They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.
Joe R. Lansdale
#39. Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#40. One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!
Leo Tolstoy
#41. Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope ... hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.
Lewis B. Smedes
#43. My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would.
Lauren Myracle
#44. I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
Sherry Thomas
#45. He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deckplates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him.
Harlan Ellison
#46. As they helped Max clear the few dishes they used, he told them the plan for tomorrow. "It's our custom to bury our dead at sunrise," he said. "We believe that dawn is the time of renewal. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after." "That's
Kass Morgan
#47. That's what I meant when I said that about the cheek of Woman as a sex. What I mean is, after what had happened, you'd have thought she would have preferred to let the dead past bury its dead, and all that sort of thing, what?
P.G. Wodehouse
#48. Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
William Blake
#49. If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.
Jennifer Donnelly
#50. I'm just happy we're cool. I just want to go back to being the type of friends who have fun. Give each other rides. Bury dead bodies together. Be each other's alibis.
G.L. Tomas
#51. The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown.
Tim Winton
#52. The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion
Agona Apell
#53. It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Diane Kruger
#54. If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
#55. All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. It's time to write dangerous music. It's time to take risks. It's time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It's time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.
John Mark McMillan
#57. The inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be rid of that particular stench, the smell of the living, however fetid, will be easier to get used to.
Jose Saramago
#58. One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.
Stephane Audeguy
