Top 100 Grave Quotes
#1. Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
William Butler Yeats
#2. I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.
Barack Obama
#3. Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.
Robert Frost
#4. We blended and look to what it has brought us.
I planted lilies on your grave. The rain is already splattering them with dripping dew.
May they last another hundred years, Gerard.
A hundred years of lilies.
Carmen Dominique Taxer
#5. You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.
Margaret Way
#6. Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
Alice Childress
#7. Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation ... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.
Roger Ebert
#8. In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.
Philippa Gregory
#9. To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#10. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
Walter Tevis
#11. Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.
Tessa Dare
#12. I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.
Fanny Crosby
#14. When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
Rickie Lee Jones
#15. Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Michel De Montaigne
#16. You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it."
"Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you.
Holly Black
#17. If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
Aaron Weiss
#18. The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel
#19. He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.
Anthony Horowitz
#20. When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Elvis Costello
#21. For all the clever jokes that could be made here involving "mind" and "matter" there is one sure and certain variation you can take with you to the grave: "In the grand scheme of things you don't matter very much, and the laws of physics don't mind at all.
Patrick E. McLean
#22. And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. Every hundred years or so a new Grim Anoukie is made; the Parish Priest at the time picks a victim, usually someone who has pissed off the church or simply wouldn't be missed. He then buries them alive in the Virgin Grave; the rest is... history."
Nicky Peacock
"The Virgin Grave
Nicky Peacock
#24. her mother's grave. There she lamented her hard
Andrew Lang
#25. Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave.
Devon Monk
#26. Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
#28. How did I picture the life after the grave?
I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.
Albert Camus
#29. When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.
Mark Twain
#30. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Walter Raleigh
#31. Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop being of use.
Lara Biyuts
#32. Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#33. From the cradle to the grave, humans desire a certain someone who will look out for them, notice and value them, soothe their wounds, reassure them in life's difficult places, and hold them in the dark.
Susan M. Johnson
#34. Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
Pope Benedict XVI
#35. Leave it to Bright Side to haunt me from the grave - and instead of it being creepy, it's sunshine and rainbows and fucking unicorns.
Kim Holden
#36. The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.
Chris Cleave
#37. For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
Annie Jacobsen
#38. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Oscar Wilde
#39. I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Thomas Browne
#41. Years, so many years we'd been friends and sisters . . . and now she was gone. Taking a handful of dirt, I held it over the grave, and let it sift through my fingers. "Be at peace, Milly. Wait for me on the other side, my friend.
Shannon Mayer
#42. But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
John Milton
#43. For reliable information, apply to a lawyer, a barber or prostitute. My informant hasn't found out so far who paid the captain.' 'But she will,' said Margaret, her face grave. 'I hope so,' he said with equal gravity,
Dorothy Dunnett
#44. What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
Emily Bronte
#45. I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it ...
Emily Bronte
#47. It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.
Mark Twain
#48. The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#49. She doubted if Angus had any inkling of how he really had saved her. He had given her adventure and escape from home, and that was one better than rescuing her from shadowy mountain whispers or a watery grave.
A.E. Mayer
#50. Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Robert Frost
#51. Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
#52. Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
Ban Ki-moon
#53. Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Luis Bunuel
#54. It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.
Anthony Liccione
#55. Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
William Shakespeare
#56. Disloyal people, you don't know when they gona hit you with grave surprises and betrayals...
Assegid Habtewold
#57. In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
Charles I Of England
#58. In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.
Dan Barker
#59. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
George Washington
#60. If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
Tom Clancy
#61. Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. I'll bury you alive by her garden gate. I'll enjoy it. Every time she goes out in the morning, every time she comes home, she'll walk on your grave, and she'll know she's safe.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#63. The orange blossom would have scarcely withered on the grave', as a poet might have said. But I am not poet. I am only a very conscientious recorder.
Vladimir Nabokov
#64. How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality.
Thomas Hardy
#65. Xander Harris: Just when you think you know a guy he robs a mass grave and takes off.
Diana G. Gallagher
#66. Death is not the end of the road - it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
Billy Graham
#67. If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
D.J. MacHale
#68. The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. A C H I L L E S, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.
Madeline Miller
#69. Lock and load, everyone," Lucan said, casting a grave look at the rest of them. "It's gonna be a long, bloody night.
Lara Adrian
#70. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
G.K. Chesterton
#71. You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you?" Charlie McGuire, Fatherland
Robert Harris
#72. The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
John Alfred Langford
#73. Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.
Jose Saramago
#74. God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
John Donne
#75. What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.
Henry Van Dyke
#76. This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor.
H.L. Burke
#77. I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave
Horace
#79. When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly.
Rumi
#80. Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."
William Gurnall
#81. To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.
Samuel Stennett
#82. If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
Gerald R. Ford
#83. She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past ... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been?
Cornelia Funke
#84. You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
#85. Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.
Shari Arison
#86. Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
Bill Vaughan
#88. LIVE like someone, somewhere is always monitoring your existence, 'because they are - some wise who are living know all too well that freedom and rest are truly deeded in the mental realm of those blessed to take up residence there - for there is no monitoring system needed from the grave...
Tracey Bond
#89. Those who Crave are sure to take disappointments to their Grave.-RVM
R.v.m.
#90. The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#91. The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you're gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.
Eric Onyango Otieno
#92. The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it, singly and together, in seasons of reflection and despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.
E.B. White
#93. Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun
#94. Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?
Alexander Pope
#95. A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
Rajneesh
#96. I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#97. If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds ... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
Kevin Bacon
#99. We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.
Charles Spurgeon
#100. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.
Victor Hugo
