Top Grave Quotes

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Grave Definition

(v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.

(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

(n.) To entomb; to bury.

(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would...

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain....

The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured, politicians kill, steal and betray the voters, but at the end they go to early grave, lose their p...

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingFrom glen to glen, and down the mountain sideThe summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.But come ye back w...

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

wealth and greatness are not destined for the grave

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blan...

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

The fire is coming and even we are not safe in the grave.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks t...

Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become the cross of my pain? No, no, I can't conceive I won't receive your...

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 where we'll win out in t...

To the Hesitating Purchaser:If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried GoldAnd all the old romance, retold, Exactl...

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.