Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Burial  Quotes
No! no! My engagement is with no bride–the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man–I have been slain by robbers–my body lies at Wurtzburg–at midnight I am to be buried–the grave is...

—Washington Irving

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeadDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Ah, this delicious night air,’ she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. ‘Night air and gardening are the great tonics. There is nothing so stimulating as bare contact with rich mother earth. You are never...

—E.F. Benson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeathGarden-Gardening
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she hath...

—Jeffrey Eugenides

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialChristianityDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Anyway, they took her body to McBurney’s Funeral Home in Motley. They’ll be planting her tomorrow.

—Peter Hedges

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeathFuneral
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte’s and Private Pilkington’s brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried “Le...

—Dan Simmons

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeathFrancis-Rawdon-Moira-Crozier
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BirthBurialCasket
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

—Israelmore Ayivor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCemetaryDead
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Don’t be decieved by your mortality, you’re just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ActionAfterdeathAspiration
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents’ names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like...

—Gillian Flynn

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialChildFamily
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialControlDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Not everyone who died had left a “memory” and not everyone who had left a memory had left a “blessed” one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged “…of a blessed memory

—Israelmore Ayivor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BlessBlessedBlessed-Memory
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AgonyBurialCrying
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
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....

—Israelmore Ayivor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCemetaryChrist
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it...

—Karen Blixen

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeathNature
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Grave is a journey not a destination

—Ikechukwu Izuakor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCoffinDead
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
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...

—Patrick Ness

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCemetaryCremation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
A burial should be more than a fire pit, arena seating, and a squirming politician strapped to a pile of wood. There should also be marshmallows.

—Jarod Kintz

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ArenaBurialFire
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren’t a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind…

—Stanley Victor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefBurialDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal bone Lie smashed and scattered round Under the clover leaves And...

—Anthony Thwaite

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ArchaeologyBurialDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time...

—Jan Neruda

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCoffinCorpse
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father...

—Roman Payne

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Brother-And-SisterBurialDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
…our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany them to the grave. The terms ‘letting go’ and ‘closure’ are...

—April Slaughter

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialClosureDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

—J.G. Ballard

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialDeathDecadence
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s...

—Ray Bradbury

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AftermathBooksBurial
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave...

—Cliff James

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BurialCremationDeath
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden....

—Mark Haddon

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AfterlifeBodiesBurial
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button