#grave

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#neutrality #sin #than #times

Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended. I suppose if you looked at it that way, one might as well decorate one's grave with an enormous statue or a giant temple. It gave people something to talk about, at least. Although, following that logic, I would need to have a roller coaster, or maybe a Tilt-A-Whirl constructed over my own grave when I died. Then even after my loved ones had moved on, people could keep having fun for years and years. Of course, I'd need a slightly larger plot. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#graves #memorial #death

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#become #capacity #emotionally #endless #exist

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#peace #same #say #they say

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#despite #every #few #frankly #go

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ↗

— Lord Byron

#grave #steps #tracks #who

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#else #every #every time #getting #getting old

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#forethought #grave #man #minded #never

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#after #book #could #expect #female

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #funny #grave #halfway #funny