90 Quotes About Burial
- Author Terry Pratchett
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Tiffany had watched the dead before many times, of course - it was the custom for a departing soul to have company the night before any funeral or burial, as if to make a point to anything that might be... lurking: this person mattered, there is someone here to make sure nothing evil creeps in at this time of danger.
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- Author Louise Dickinson Rich
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Nature is strictly moral. There is no attempt to cheat the Earth my means of steel vault of bronze coffin. I hope that when I die I too may be permitted to pay at once my oldest outstanding debt, to restore promptly the minerals and salts that have been lent to me for the little while that I have use for blood and bone and flesh.
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- Author Jennifer Worth
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Handling a dead body is not a repugnant or frightening experience and, somehow, it helps to accept the fact that the soul of that person has gone if you treat the body with reverence and respect before it is finally disposed of by cremation or burial.
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- Author Sydney King Russell
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[Dust]Agatha Morleyall her lifegrumbled at dustlike a good wife...Six feet underthe earth she lieswith dust at her feetand dust in her eyes.
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- Author Sergei Lukyanenko
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When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
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- Author J.K. Rowling
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There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.
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- Author Susan Hubbard
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Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.
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- Author Emily Brontë
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I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether undervalued and uncoveted by me.'' Heathcliff
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- Author Kazuo Ishiguro
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Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.
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