Browsing Topic Best Graves Quotes

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you’re lying in your coffin….Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn’t it?

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name. Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time.’

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them–as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself–into the grave, and is forgotten.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron’s magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don’t just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

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.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.