Grave Quotes

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.