Top 100 Quotes About My Grave
#1. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
Vaddey Ratner
#2. I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
#3. I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
Sebastian Coe
#4. I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
Berkeley Breathed
#5. Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#6. When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.
Nick Vujicic
#7. I love you, Lottie, and I want to make you my wife." Stone's low voice rumbled between them. Ardent. Unwavering. Determined. "I'll pursue you," he vowed, "until a parson either joins us in marriage or speaks words over my grave.
Karen Witemeyer
#8. Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#9. I'd have to be dead in my grave before I stopped fighting for you, Madeline. Even then, I'd move six feet of earth to find a way.
-Logan
Tessa Dare
#10. A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
Khalil Gibran
#11. I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.
Kola Boof
#12. If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
Clark Gable
#13. My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
William Blake
#14. I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Lenny Bruce
#15. My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?
Henri Charriere
#17. You have every right to hate me for this lifetime and many others. You have every right to never see me again. To spit on my grave. But tonight, now, I'm not going to give up on you or," his voice fell with weight, "die trying.
Karina Halle
#18. I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances
from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#19. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.
Kaoru Tada
#20. I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I've done.
Miriam Margolyes
#22. At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
Jack Kerouac
#23. At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise
Crazy Horse
#24. Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave.
Chris Matakas
#25. I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.
Jack Nicholson
#26. My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
Anthony Kiedis
#27. I told them that I'd need a larger casket."
I don't want to know. "Why?"
"Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.
Adrianne Brooks
#28. It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.
Neil Gaiman
#29. If you tell me to leave, I'll turn and walk away. I swear that, Ivy, but I had to try one more time. I'm not going to possibly go to my grave without trying. Please. Don't let me go.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. Come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited." It
Yeonmi Park
#32. Son, I know you don't consider me family and that pain I'll take to my grave. Let me just tell you this though, never turn your back on somebody you love, you'll never forgive yourself. -Rick's Grandfather
M.K. Schiller
#33. I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.
Diana Nyad
#34. If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy. They'd write it on my grave or when they scattered my ashes. On second thoughts, I'd rather hang around and be there with my best friend if she wants me. ~Belle and Sebastian "If She Wants Me
Autumn Doughton
#35. I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.
Allen Iverson
#36. When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'
When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
Emmuska Orczy
#37. Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
Quentin Crisp
#38. I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
Michael Skolnik
#39. Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan
#40. I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.
Michael Chabon
#41. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through.
Sue Monk Kidd
#42. I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.
Madeline Hunter
#43. Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..
Ben Bradlee
#44. It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and ... oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.
Mike Royer
#46. The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#47. I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
Joseph Stalin
#48. You are my everything," I say, lips moving against hers. "I've said it before and I will say it again, and I'll go to my grave saying it. You are my star, my light, my love. And it doesn't matter if you believe in it or not because it is the truth and the truth always finds a way to shine.
Karina Halle
#49. You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.
Sam Cooke
#50. Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!
Nancy B. Brewer
#51. She'll take my breath, she'll take my bones, but she cannot have my epitaph. For if indeed I truly am a writer, then e'er my words shall dance upon my grave.
Anne Schilde
#52. Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares.
Nalini Singh
#53. Watch-see, Holy One, my grave-rats will kill-kill all dead-things. We show-tell Fester-rats how to fight. Show-tell why Fester-rats should stay true to Horned One.
C.L. Werner
#54. I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild
#55. Eggs: Could go to my grave quite happily without ever seeing another one.
L. H. Cosway
#57. My Dad once told me: "you will retire only in your grave!" ; I wish he is alive to ask him "when I will retire searching for my grave!
Hisham Fawzi
#58. She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.
Harper Lee
#59. And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
#60. Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
#61. I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
#62. I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Adolf Eichmann
#63. And I wondered what would become of me, and comforted myself that in a hundred years I would be dead and at peace, and in my grave; and I thought it might be less trouble altogether, to be in it a good deal sooner than that.
Margaret Atwood
#64. My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona Panova
#65. I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.
Charles Dickens
#66. If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#67. Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me
Cat Stevens
#68. If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.
Malalai Joya
#69. During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#70. I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!
Gustave Flaubert
#72. My mommy told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My sister told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me
That rubber dolly
Now I am dead
And in my grave
And there beside me
A rubber dolly
Tracy Chevalier
#73. The scent of wine rising
from my grave will be so strong
that it will intoxicate passers-by.
There will be such an atmosphere of serenity
that couples in love will find it impossible
to tear themselves away.
Omar Khayyam
#74. I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.
Albert Einstein
#76. My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.
Tommy Cooper
#77. Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak
#78. I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.
Telly Savalas
#79. If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.
Stevie Smith
#81. I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it
that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.
Heather Demetrios
#82. I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Madame De Stael
#83. Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
John Thorn
#84. Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.
Simon Bolivar
#85. I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last.
Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#86. My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn
#88. When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
Steven Morrissey
#89. How young I seem; I am exceptional;
I think of all I have.
But really no one is exceptional,
No one has anything, I'm anybody,
I stand beside my grave
Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary.
Randall Jarell
#90. If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
D.J. MacHale
#92. Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.
Mzwakhe Mbuli
#93. I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
Rahul Kohli
#94. I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
William Shakespeare
#95. Bring me an axe and spade,
Bring me a winding-sheet;
When I my grave have made
Let winds and tempests beat:
Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
True love doth pass away!
William Blake
#96. Woman, I've crushed more Campbells than ye'll ever know, and Ill go to my grave with a Campbell's heart clutched within my fingers."
"Will that heart be mine, my laird?"
"It might.
Paula Quinn
#97. I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.
Todd McFarlane
#98. I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.
George Washington
#99. To help me to my grave. I asked for you to leave. Will you make me call my gaolers and have you dragged away, you vile, scheming, evil bitch?
George R R Martin
#100. They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.
Darynda Jones
