Best 93 quotes in «graveyard quotes» category

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

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.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

every heart has its graveyard.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.

After the raid, the neighborhood was officially repossessed by the city of Portland, and a number of the houses were razed. The plan was to set up new low-income condos for some of the municipal workers, but construction stalled after the terrorist incidents, and as I cross over into the Highlands, all I see is rubble: holes in the ground, and trees felled and left with their roots exposed to the sky, dirty, churned earth, and rusting metal signs declaring it a hard-hat area. It’s so quiet that even the sound of my wheels as they turn seems overloud. A thought comes to me suddenly, unbidden—Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie—the old rhyme we used to whisper as kids when we passed a graveyard. A graveyard: That’s exactly what the Highlands is like now.

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

A place for the newly weds and nearly deads I'm counting the stones I hope you know I love you. Got a lot of friends 6 feet under us. Counting down the days till we join the party. Thoughts of your nightmare projected through mine... Breathing in these lies is no surprise These evil things are all we know Lets take these lives where we want to go. The future is our prize, when the stars align. Ghouls and ghosts will haunt my soul but they will never take me. Before I go, I want to show that we can make a difference. We've got some dumb perceptions. But I've got the death connection... All the hate that you have... Just throw it away Life is meant for more, But we're too distracted.. Too caught up in the anger and judgment.. Caught up in the web of lies I've heard these things keep our blood boiling, Keeps us alive, and moving forward... If that's the case I was born a dead man. And I'm forever a ghost. Hatred is something that we're brought up to see. Now everybody's looking at me I hope they know... They won't get their satisfaction.

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

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

But," expostulated Josiah Worthington. "But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it.

Death is the final destiny of every soul.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle. "It's a place for burying dead folk," I say. Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?" "Don't people die in space?" I ask. "Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary?

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!

Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

Every graveyard gives this very simple message: The nonexistence shore exists!

edge of town all graveyard and the sound of waves

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

Graveyards last forever.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he couldn’t get a good long shot on the exterior because someone had set up a fake graveyard right in the plaza. “Kids just playing around, I guess, but it’s morbid; we’ll have to get rid of it, maybe bring in some sod to—” “No,” Albert said. “We’re almost ready for you,” the director assured him. “That’s not a fake graveyard. Those aren’t fake graves. No one was playing around.” “You’re saying those . . . those are actually . . .” “What do you think happened here?” Albert asked in a soft voice. “What do you think this was?” Absurdly, embarrassingly, he had started to cry. “Those are kids buried there. Some of them were torn apart, you know. By coyotes. By . . . by bad people. Shot. Crushed. Like that. Some of those kids in the ground there couldn’t take it, the hunger and the fear . . . some of those kids out there had to be cut down from the ropes they used to hang themselves. Early on, when we still had any animals? I had a crew go out and hunt down cats. Cats and dogs and rats. Kill them. Other kids to skin them . . . cook them up.” There were a dozen crew people in the McDonald’s. None spoke or moved. Albert brushed away tears and sighed. “Yeah. So don’t mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we’re good to go.

Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate.

Every day I sit and watch random people holding the wands with the power that can turn the world either into a graveyard or into a paradise and yet roam around without believing in the magic that it possesses. And in the end, they throw it into the stash and burn it like it is nothing.

For anyone who might be of the opinion that horror is strictly the domain of men, we graveyard girls are here to change your way of thinking—and to make you sleep with the lights on.

Graciously live life. There is return from the grave.

I don’t agree. The morning fog makes the graveyard beautiful, soft and sad as a voice humming a lullaby, but I don’t tell her what I think. She’d call me a weirdo. - Raven Smith

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.

My body weeps to live when you make me believe that someday I will be dead soul sleepless in graveyard's bed

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it.