Grave Quotes

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.

Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.