27 Quotes About Cemeteries

Cemeteries are like a giant library of stories.

A soft breeze settled around our shoulders as we walked into the cemetery. That same breeze made the world around us shiver a little bit. The slick green leaves of the tall trees rustled, and the long curtain of ivy dangling from the branches began to wave. When the ivy blows in the graveyard, it casts the prettiest lacelike shadows on the ground. They remind me of banners, rippling over the dearly departed in silent celebration.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

No sooner was I safely among the gravestones than a great feeling of warmth and calm contentment came sweeping over me.Life among the dead.This was where I was meant to be!What a revelation! And what a place to have it!I could succeed at whatever I chose. I could, for instance, become an undertaker. Or a pathologist. A detective, a gravedigger, a tombstone maker, or even the world's greatest murderer.Suddenly the world was my oyster—even if it was a dead one.

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.

In their death as in their life the Latins are more socially disposed than we, and the graves in their cemeteries almost always touch each other, they are so closely crowded together.

Over all was that air of abandonment and decay which seems nowhere so fit and significant as in a village of the forgotten dead.