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“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.”

Giving Speak Stones Praise Graves Recompense Tardiness

Author:Elizabeth Chase Allen

“If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.”

Ifs Trouble Stones Committed Burden Graves Calamity Back Again Sisyphus

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”

Body Spirit Water Red Stones Paint Bones Graves Joints Plunge Fresh Water

Author:Crazy Horse

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.”

Feet Son Paper Pages Glory Stones Spread Graves My Son Thick Verses Passive Bricks

Author:Alexander Pope

“I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.”

Want Needs Faces Stones Graves Wants To Be Alone

Author:Jackson C. Frank

“When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.”

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

Ifs Way Children Sometimes Play Action Earth Death Serious Huge Stones Structure Profound Significant Graves Concrete Another Way

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?”

Doe Differences Stones Graves Soil Covered

Author:Milan Kundera

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

Years Lasts Three Generations Stones Graves Forty Scarce Oaks

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.”

Believe Christian Jesus Christ Bed Jesus Christ Stones Rose Graves Resurrection Easter Death Bed

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.”

Ifs Wells Stills Happens Fall Force Grows Silence Forever Growing Up Heard Dying Terrible Mouths Stones Graves Grieving Unsaid Speechless

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.”

People Men Age Names Common Written Journey Goes On Stones Miles Graves Hills Infant Passing Away Kindred

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.”

Real Belief Century Praying Shapes Worship Reflection Stones Saint Graves Islamic Attributes Idols Sufi Deities Quran Praying To God 18th Century Delhi Vedas Idol Worship

Author:Asghar Ali Engineer

“Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.”

Men Want Doe Church Circumstances Stones Graves Want Him

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.”

Beautiful Enemy Stones Graves Fallen Honored

Book:The Red Baron

Source: The Red Baron

“There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.”

Lasts Night Sky Streets Mankind Loneliness Moon Protect Stones Lonely Soldier Graves Flames Midst Melancholy Broads Squares Lamps Mist Tombs Props Arches

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.”

Stones Blind Graves Patriotism Fierce Irrational Fever Hens Patriotism And Nationalism Headless

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk . . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.”

Giving Littles I Can Problem Eye Able Earth Space Answers Pieces Week Feet Arms Sitting Stones Give Me Graves Nine Hills Staring Knees His Eyes Dirt Ponds Overlooking Staring Into Space

Author:Mitch Albom

“From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.”

World Heart Long Dream Form Lying Voice Known Heard Devil Discovery Stones Graves Mortals Timeless My Thoughts Pillow Dazzling New Music Lullaby

Book:The vampire Lestat

Source: The vampire Lestat

“Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.”

Seems Answers Feet Tears Sorrow Stones Graves Tales Weed Rome Distress

Book:Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

Source: Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.”

Ifs Whole Light Eye Faces Black Dark Heard Son Hair Daughter Stones Population Graves Settling Flames Brown Candle Graveyard Firefly Swarms Black Hair Dark Eyes

Book:The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the glittered wave Of the sun-gleam's dart In the ocean-grave. Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own! For that I love Thy heart of stone! From the heights above To the depths below, Where dread things move, There is naught can show A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown! Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!”

Life Years Heart Shows Moving Grows My Own Laughing Sun Sea Cold Proud Ocean Fairs Stones Depth Wave Graves Height Dread Crowns Ruthless Gleam Faithless Moaning Heart Of Stone

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Done Lying Women Justice Rights Demand Stones Injustice Corners Graves Womens Rights Mistress Cradle Wrong Ideas

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”