Graves Quotations | Page 2

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

Pretty girls make graves

There's no repentance in the grave.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

...we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth...

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.

Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,” said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet’s.” “Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

My heart is its own grave!

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

Theres a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

True wit has a grave intention.

we all grow on somebody's grave ...

I take this continent with me into the grave.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

Food of Acheron. (Grave.) [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

You can't predict when people are going to die. You have to be here to help the families, not just to bury them, but the surviving family members come up to decorate graves and have questions about where people are buried ? you gotta be here.

The Kentucky graves surprise some visitors. They think Kentucky was a Confederate state.

And so, they wait. Mothers, wives and daughters wait to place flowers at those graves -- and to start life over again.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

The mass graves we excavated were Kurds. It's believed he did the same thing to the Shiites, too.

The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home.

You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.

The living grave of crime.

The killing fields are gone, the mass graves are not having new bodies piled up day after day, as happened under Saddam Hussein,

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

Love is cruel as the grave.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

And either victory, or else a grave.