Grave Clothes Quotes

#1. His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her
grave-clothes. Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the
freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he
bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable,
imperishable.

James Joyce

#2. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

#3. Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried ... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

Lucy Stone

#4. A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

Jonathan Glover

#5. Time is an illusion.

Albert Einstein

#6. Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

Kin Hubbard

#7. Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Lemony Snicket

#8. We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.

Gabriel Josipovici

#9. When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

Chris Christie

#10. I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power.

Carlos Fuentes

#11. What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Rick Warren

#12. Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell.

Steven Erikson

#13. We are the fine print that was made to become the BOLD print.

Dominic Minguzzi

#14. Whether you think the words he heard came from inside himself or from outside, it is clear that Muhammad experienced them, and with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world.

Lesley Hazleton

#15. He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.

Amanda DeWees

#16. Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

John Sterling

#17. [T]he tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting; of the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond.

Joseph Conrad

#18. Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#19. The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Jules Shear

#20. The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.

Margot Kidder

#21. My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

John Updike

#22. Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Aleister Crowley

#23. When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

Yoko Ono

#24. Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'

Kevin Keegan