Burial Quotes
Collection of top 45 famous quotes about Burial
Burial Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Burial quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.
— Peter Hedges
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
— Caitlin Doughty
That was the way it was, the burial ritual. You set them in the earth and walked away to keep living, until it was your turn to be left behind.
— David Baldacci
We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box.
— Johnny Rich
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
Royalty is a fine burial shroud.
— Theodora
Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
— Ugo Betti
There," she said softly. "Now he could be sleeping.
— J.K. Rowling
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca The Younger
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?
— Jeff VanderMeer
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
— George Alec Effinger
Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.
— Susan Hubbard
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
— J.G. Ballard
When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
— Seneca The Younger
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
— Wil Shriner
Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.
— Francois Mauriac
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.
— George Steiner
Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial
— George Orwell
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
— Alfred Hitchcock
And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.
— Kendare Blake
We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.
— Robyn Schneider
A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
— James S.A. Corey
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
— Stephen King
the wildflowers said what burial.
— Gwen Calvo
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
— Dale Carnegie
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
— Christopher Marlowe
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
— George Jean Nathan
No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.
— Hilary Mantel
would go to the length of giving the whole Congress organization a decent burial, rather than put up with the corruption that is rampant,
— Bipan Chandra
It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.
— C.J. Langenhoven
To dust is only to forestall burial
— Annie Dillard
