| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. |
| Bible | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. |
| Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus | even if he had one foot in the grave. |
| Edmund Burke | I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. |
| Edward Young | An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. |
| Ellen Glasgow | The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. |
| Francis Beaumont | Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed. |
| G C Lichtenberg | The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. |
| James Beattie | Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave. |
| Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander | By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave; But no man built that sepulcher, And no man saw it e'er, For the angels of God upturned the sod And laid the dead man there. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. |
| Park Benjamin | Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade. |
| Philip Ii | O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. |
| Robert Blair | The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. |
| Robert Blair | See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear. |
| Robert Fergusson | Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part; Each comic heart must now be grieved to see The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. |
| Thomas Campbell | What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod. |
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