102 Quotes About Cemetery

  • Author Светлана Алексиевич
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    Сожгли нашу деревню. Разбомбили деревенское кладбище. Прибежали люди туда: покойники лежали наверху… Они лежали, как будто еще раз убитые… Наш дедушка лежал, который недавно умер. Их опять хоронили…

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  • Author Italo Calvino
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    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.

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  • Author Heather Brewer
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    Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.

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  • Author Cornell Woolrich
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    The massive bronze gates were wide open now, too late. Inside, the cemetery had been turned into a grotesque place gleaming with high-powered searchlights, blue flashlight flares, winking pocket torches. Uniformed men were already swarming about. Red cigarette-embers showed oddly amidst the headstones here and there.("The Street Of Jungle Death")

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  • Author Arthur Brisbane
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    The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.

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  • Author Buck Buchanan
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    It's important so the spouses have someplace close to go without having to go to (the national veterans' cemetery in) San Antonio or one of the other national cemeteries, ... earned their right to be here.

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