Premature Burial Quotes

#1. Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

George Alec Effinger

#2. I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.

Greg Egan

#3. Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. "God

William Peter Blatty

#4. Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Edward Abbey

#5. A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

James S.A. Corey

#6. I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.

Luo Guanzhong

#7. The Western hero, subdued by kisses and the mere tease of rope.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

#8. I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

Rivers Cuomo

#9. It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

Byron Katie

#10. I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

Joe Cocker

#11. Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Colin Wilson

#12. Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

William S. Burroughs

#13. The chief thing is to begin, after all - after which the chief thing is to finish.

Gene Wolfe

#14. Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. I need to make my bones.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. If it was my lot that I should have him for only a little while, then have him I would.

Jillian Kuhlmann

#16. I'm actually not on Twitter.

Rachel Bilson

#17. Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Debbie Stabenow