Top 100 Graveyard Quotes
#1. They kept a clean and neat house. Rebeca would open it wide at dawn and the wind from the graveyard would come in through the windows and go out through the doors to the yard and leave the whitewashed walls and furniture tanned by the saltpeter of the dead.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. The dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a thousand new scents.
Kate Atkinson
#3. Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
Paul Farmer
#4. Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#5. I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want ... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.
Heather McHugh
#6. Live without meaning is not Life,it is Death.It is like being in the graveyard except that you still have breath.-RVM
R.v.m.
#7. Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#8. Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him? - Cat to Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#9. At six
I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house.
Anne Sexton
#11. Thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves.
Toni Morrison
#12. The popular notion that ghosts are likely to be seen in a graveyard is not borne out by psychical research ... A haunting ghost usually haunts a place that a person lived in or frequented while alive ... Only a gravedigger's ghost would be likely to haunt a graveyard.
John H. Alexander
#13. The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.
Jesikah Sundin
#15. What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
John Oliver Killens
#16. Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#17. Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?
Thomas Pynchon
#18. Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.
Anne Shirley
#20. A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.
H.P. Lovecraft
#21. Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
Mark Udall
#22. it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just
Ellen Cooney
#23. Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.
Christopher Rice
#24. For if u have positive attitude n creativeness u will always see a graveyard as a beautiful garden ...
Sana
#25. A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.
P. J. O'Rourke
#26. Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.
Pete Seeger
#27. We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
Bernie Siegel
#28. Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.
J.E. Fison
#29. Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.
Garth Brooks
#30. I don't agree. The morning fog makes the graveyard beautiful, soft and sad as a voice humming a lullaby, but I don't tell her what I think. She'd call me a weirdo.
- Raven Smith
Rita Stradling
#31. In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.
Akshay Vasu
#32. The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.
Robert Hass
#33. At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. She had to remember that there was power and magic in life: that when the sun laid a ray as warm as a hand on her head as they left the graveyard, it could be an unseen hand, reaching out to her with love. Only changed, and not strange forever.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#36. It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
Diane Frolov
#37. It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more that atoned for, every riddle unriddled and twilight quietly cloaks the crosses, now no longer upright, of graves I once wept over.
Teffi
#38. I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise ... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash ...
Bobby Pickett
#39. Facebook without friends is like a hospital with no relative and a few medical attendants to ask about you at scheduled time.. Life without friends is like the coffin about to get buried into the graveyard..
Himmilicious
#40. My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed
Munia Khan
#41. In your twenties, you expect to accumulate a graveyard's worth of failed romances. But what you don't count on is having to bury so many treasured friendships alongside them.
Ryan O'Connell
#42. Six Lines
I know that in this world no one needs me,
me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard
Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish?
Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty
and only the ephemeral is godly
and humility is the only true rebellion
Aaron Zeitlin
#43. I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#44. The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh
#45. He wondered if this was the bulldozers' graveyard, where the bulldozers went to die.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Some sinister secret lat buried in the heart of the graveyard !
Rajib Mukherjee
#47. The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for
for what? Someday we'll know.
Edward Abbey
#48. Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
Chinua Achebe
#49. She holds on to life as resiliently as the rose that grows out of the cold, desolate soil of a graveyard. A graveyard rose!
Ginny Clyde
#50. But you see, there is
a graveyard in my mouth
filled with words that
have died on my lips.
Emily Palermo
#51. It was, he thought, fine to be young and in love. Even in the graveyard which this world has become, it was fine.
Stephen King
#52. She was more of a marble statue under a cascade of moonlight, smelling like flowers and ivy - the glory of a weeping graveyard angel.
Rob Thurman
#53. I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
M.I.A.
#54. Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
Russell Brand
#55. She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps.
Tana French
#56. By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
Eric Bristow
#57. Claire stepped over a graveyard of cigarette butts as she followed him. The alley was T-shaped, intersecting with another service alley for the restaurants and shops. Hardly
Karin Slaughter
#58. The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.
Ronald Reagan
#59. Every graveyard gives this very simple message: The nonexistence shore exists!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#61. His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth.
Allyse Near
#62. But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.
Mary MacLane
#63. Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.
Rudy Rucker
#64. Oh shit! Can you say 'fuck' in a graveyard or will it jinx you with the undead?
Libba Bray
#66. The Houselands. Graveyard to the ones
who got locked out. A chill ran up London's spine. What the hell
were they doing?
Anna Silver
#67. Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.
Neil Gaiman
#68. The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Erich Fromm
#69. You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
Colin Quinn
#71. Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
Calvin Coolidge
#72. Ina stood and shuffled over tot he urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.
Stuart MacBride
#73. Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Wallace Stegner
#74. There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.
David Berlinski
#75. He is dead, right?"
"Graveyard dead," Bran admitted without a hint of remorse.
"Oh, forgive us," Rick murmured, crossing himself.
"Forgiveness is between him and God," Bran insisted. "It was my job to arrange the meeting."
"Man on Fire," Maddy blurted.
Julie Ann Walker
#76. It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#77. You feel bad about yelling in a graveyard after you just tried to have sex with me in a church?
Liliana Hart
#78. I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
Boyd Holbrook
#79. On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.
Niels Arden Oplev
#80. I'm fear less as far I can tell, but I can't go to the graveyard and sleep there. I need time to handle this!
Deyth Banger
#81. Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?"
"Thinking."
"Thinking?"
"A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#82. The graveyard is full of the names of ancient magical families, and this accounts, no doubt, for the stories of hauntings that have dogged the little church beside it for many centuries.' "You and your parents aren't mentioned,
J.K. Rowling
#83. collected promotional mugs for all eight of the banks which collapsed beneath me. I lined them up in each new cubicle like heads on poles outside of a cannibal village. My resume was a graveyard of once powerful institutions.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#84. Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
Anne Sexton
#87. His face just looks like one of those long, narrow stones in the graveyard, doesn't it? 'Sacred to the memory' ought to be written on his forehead.
L.M. Montgomery
#88. I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
#89. Far happier he, who, young and full of pride And radiant with the glory of the sun, Leaves earth before his singing time is done. All wounds of Time the graveyard flowers hide, His beauty lives, as fresh as when he died.
Kobo Abe
#90. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
Charles Bukowski
#91. How many kids are in the Graveyard?"
"A bunch."
"Who sends your supplies?"
"George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget."
"How often do you receive new arrivals?"
"About as often as you beat your wife.
Neal Shusterman
#92. Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
James G. Stavridis
#93. Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
Louis Armstrong
#94. As usual I was working the graveyard shift - an irony I reveled in - at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire feel comfortable working?
Pat Henshaw
#95. Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
Haruki Murakami
#96. We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil.
Amy Plum
#97. I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
George Bernard Shaw
#98. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
Seth Adam Smith
#99. They knew her, the graveyard folk, for each of us encounters the Lady on the Grey at the end of our days, and there is no forgetting her.
Neil Gaiman
#100. Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
Immanuel Kant
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