Grave Quotes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

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

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.