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#cemetery

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cemetery




Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.


Miguel de Unamuno


#dead #ideas #science

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.


Alastair Campbell


#admirers #ago #been #buried #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.


Clare Morgan


#cemetery #change #resurrection #change

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...


Emily Brontë


#cemetery #corpse #death #heathcliff #change

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.


Christopher Hitchens


#cemetery #death #lyonesse #tombstones #wrocław

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)


George Sterling


#graveyard #horror #scary #supernatural #trees

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.


Henry Ward Beecher


#cemetery #every #every man #faults #friends

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.


Henny Youngman


#like #look #scout #talent #you

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.


Muhammad Iqbal


#cemetery #crow #falcon #him #king

War is the cemetery of futures promised.


John Cory


#futures #promised #war






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