Grave Quotes - page 27

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. (Robert Frost)
Friends make pretence of following to the grave; But before one is in it, their minds are turned; And making the best of their way back to life; And living people and things they understand. View quote
Robert Frost
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. View quote
Torquato Tasso
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. View quote
Henry Cabot Lodge
How deep must be the feeling of the bereaved parent who cannot look on the fair face of his child without recalling a face, once the fairest and the dearest in the world: the shadow of the grave hangs around the infant playfulness of the orphan, and even the hopes of the present must come tinged with something of sadness from the past. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, glory of the morning! Oh, ye gifted, young, and brave! What end have ye, but midnight; What find ye but the grave? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
That day the youth was told the tale, How she had pined beneath the veil And died, and then they show'd her grave- He knew that cypress's green wave. - That night, alone, he watched his bride - The next they laid him by her side. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There was a grave just closed. Not one seemed near, To pay the tribute of one long-last tear! How very desolate must that one be, Whose more than grave has not a memory! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I deeply swore No lip should sigh where mine before Had sealed its vow, no heart should rest Upon the bosom mine had prest. Life had no ill I would not brave To claim him, even in the grave! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Light like the wan blue flames that wave Their death-torch o'er the murderer's grave; And flickering shapes beset the way, Watching in gloom to seize their prey, Most terrible, for that the eye Wander'd in dim uncertainty. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The earth was parched, the trees were sear'd, And blasted every branch appear'd; At one end yawned a gloomy cave, Black, as its mouth were that of the grave; And dark, as if the waters of death Were in its depths, rose a well beneath. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
What is the light of a poet's name, If it is not his country that hallows his fame? Where may he look for guerdon so fair As the honour and praise that await him there? His name will be lost and his grave forgot, If the tears of his country preserve them not!... View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is Rome's secret charm to reconcile Imagination with our long last sleep. We are resign'd ourselves, and suffer less For those we love. The people of the South Paint closing life in hues less terrible Than do the gloomy nations of the North : The sun, like glory, even warms the grave. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He fell as other thousands do, Trampled down where they fall, While on a single name is heap'd The glory gain'd by all. Yet even he whose common grave Lies in the open fields, Died not without a thought of all The joy that glory yields. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A single grave! -the only one In this unbroken ground, Where yet the garden leaf and flower Are lingering around. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Pillowed on a lotus flower, Gathered in a summer hour, Rides he o'er the mountain wave Which would be a tall ship's grave! At his back his bow is slung, Sugar-cane, with wild bees strung,-. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And here at length is somewhat of revenge: For man's most golden dreams of pride and power Are vain as any woman-dreams of love; Both end in weary brow and wither'd heart, And the grave closes over those whose hopes Have lain there long before. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine - I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine; Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine ! . . . Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain, And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I am here tonight under the most tragic circumstances, with the possibilities of grave and difficult operations in Belfast and in Ulster within almost a few days...I am here to tell you solemnly and honestly that we intend to see this matter through. The cost may be great, the sufferings may be terrible. View quote
Edward Carson, Baron Carson
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. View quote
John Ruskin
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for. (Bernard Baruch)
It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for. View quote
Bernard Baruch
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. View quote
Samuel Johnson
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart. View quote
Anne Rice
We must needs believe in the other life, in the eternal life beyond the grave. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno