102 Quotes About Cemetery

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

Out of the four graves that Alice visited, one had a headstone—the other three would need time to settle—and it was there that she allowed herself to rest. When she grew weary of talking, she began to hum, and it wasn’t long before the tune carried her thoughts into the trees, shaking loose a handful of leaves.

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

Don’t carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.