Quotes About Burying Someone

#1. One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view.
at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother
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Nancy E. Turner

#2. The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.

Miklos Radnoti

#3. You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Mike Pence

#4. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.

Mark Lawrence

#5. A mother burying her child is the only thing that could make one truly long for death - if only for the sliver of hope that she might glimpse her child again.

Emma Chase

#6. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#7. It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. You know what's worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.

John Hennessy

#9. Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Franz Grillparzer

#10. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future

Tahereh Mafi

#11. Nothing offers better public relations fodder than something you can rescue and love intensively for a month and then be filmed burying at a lavish funeral.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Seann William Scott

#13. Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

Bob Dylan

#14. Every day is important; each day make us. Even the nothing ones especially those, given how they slit up, slowly burying other, seemingly more momentous, moments beneath their weight. I see that now.

Adrian Barnes

#15. I wanted to make sure you were fine ... and that he was okay, too. You didn't, like, stab the boy, did you? I mean, I totally disapprove of murdering hotties, but if you need help burying the body, you know I'll bring the shovel.

Kody Keplinger

#16. ... resentment buried is not gone. It is like burying a seed: for a season it may stay hidden in the dark, but in the end, it will always grow.

Beth Underdown

#17. In some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

Kelley Armstrong

#18. "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Mark Steyn

#19. The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Betty Friedan

#20. Certain creatures laid eggs that were able to endure the dry season. Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#22. He slid his hands under her butt and she could feel him pressing against her, hot and hard and sleek. And then he thrust inside, deep, fast, burying himself inside her, breaking past whatever trace of innocence she still had remaining.

Anne Stuart

#23. I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.
This room feels very large, and I feel very small.

Beth Revis

#24. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#25. Fuck, Mia," he says, clenching my hair and burying his face into its scent. "I want to damage you. I want to ruin you for anyone else.

Nina G. Jones

#26. Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.

H.P. Lovecraft

#27. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...

Meg Cabot

#28. We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#29. The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

John Brunner

#30. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Herbert Read

#31. As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up.

Jane Green

#32. to the right collapsed, further burying the former

James Rollins

#33. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Begley Jr.

#34. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Katherine Mansfield