90 Quotes About Burial
- Author Dan Simmons
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I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried "Le Vesconte Point," but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Funerals are a constant reminder that chasing most of the things we are chasing is an embarrassing way to spend a portion of our lives.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Death frees us from even ourselves.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are all our own bodies’ visitors.
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- Author Munia Khan
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You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial,can you?From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery
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- Author Thomas Browne
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Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live; and unto such as consider none hereafter, it must be more than death to die, which makes us amazed at those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. Certainly such spirits as could contemn death, when they expected no better being after, would have scorned to live, had they known any.
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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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 the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
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- Author James S.A. Corey
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A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.
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