Quotes About Burying The Dead

#1. going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole

Sharon Jones

#2. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.

George R R Martin

#3. So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Paul Eldridge

#6. Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#7. We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help.

Regina Spektor

#8. This is your grave."
"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."
"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious.

Otsuichi

#9. A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#10. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

T.D. Jakes

#11. It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

George Eliot

#12. When success begins to slip from your fingers - for whatever reason - the response isn't to grip and claw so hard that you shatter it to pieces. It's to understand that you must work yourself back to the aspirational phase. You must get back to first principles and best practices.

Ryan Holiday

#13. It was time to chuck this life, with its Jo-Jos and Rodneys, its bloody burning children and walking-dead parents, just kick dirt over the whole show, like a cat burying its shit.

Richard Price

#14. Blasted grave marker. There sure are a bloody lot of them. They've got some nerve burying all these dead people here.

Tess Oliver

#15. Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#16. A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from the others.

Michael Ondaatje

#17. So listen to them, heed them. Who never touch the Earth, can never be in Heaven

Adam Mickiewicz

#18. If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't.

Allan Dare Pearce

#19. When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

Carl Hiaasen