Top 49 Quotes About Graveyards
#1. I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
Alexander Stoddart
#2. I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#3. The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Robert Smithson
#4. With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and like any honorable man he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate.
John C. Dolan
#5. In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.
Tim Heaton
#6. Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
Gary Larson
#9. Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Elbert Hubbard
#11. Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
Tim Burton
#14. I salute your level of patience if you watch these daily soaps. I cannot kill because there's not enough space for graveyards.
Himmilicious
#15. If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
(LDStorymakers Conference, May 2015)
Brandon Mull
#16. Where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.
Sophy Burnham
#17. Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.
Heather Brewer
#19. It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
Isaac Marion
#20. It's an unfortunate fact of life," Niko said with grimly amused resignation. "Where there are graveyards, there are flesh-eating revenants. Where there are cars, there are car salesmen.
Rob Thurman
#21. A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.
Jim Tully
#22. I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
Mark Twain
#24. There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time.
Cecilia Llompart
#25. At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.
Beth Orton
#26. He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
Garrett Leigh
#27. It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.
Christopher Hitchens
#28. Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.
Gunter Grass
#30. But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards.
Joe Haldeman
#31. Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
Ivan Klima
#32. We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
Clive Barker
#33. Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
Mark Victor Hansen
#34. As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
Charles Bukowski
#35. It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.
Clement Of Alexandria
#36. Truth be told, Victor didn't care for graveyards, either. He didn't like dead people, mostly because he had no effect on them. Sydney, conversely, didn't like dead people because she had such a marked effect on them.
Victoria Schwab
#37. When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.
Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#38. A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. 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
#41. Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett
#43. No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy
#44. Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.
Helen Stringer
#45. Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Neil Kinnock
#46. When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. 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
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