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“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”
― Euripides, Electra

“Everybody dies, but some spend a whole life digging their grave.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“I shiver: whose feet are walking on my grave? Time, I plead to the air, just a little more time. That's all I need.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“No money, no cradle. Earnings pay rent on their mother's grave. If payment is not made, her body will be dug up and thrown in a common trench.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“Oh, yet come back, come back to me, beloved; for I repent me of my choice! Come back, and we will creep away together, to some dark and silent grave where the devouring army shall not find us; and we will lay us down there, locked in one another's arms, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep.”
― Voynich E. L. (Ethel Lillian 1864-1960, The Gadfly

“Let your only graduation be in the grave.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Snow is both sides of the same page
It covers the grave and the tulip”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I could see the innermost recesses, and there view the shrouded bodies in their dead and solemn slumber with the worm. But alas! the real sleepers were fewer, by many millions, than those who slumbered not at all; and there was a feebly struggling; and there was a general and sad unrest; and from out of the depths of the countless pits there came a melancholy rustling from the garments of the buried.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

“With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.”
― Trisha Leaver, The Secrets We Keep

“Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what make it perfect.”
― Trisha Leaver, The Secrets We Keep

“Gluttony is the act of digging a grave with your own teeth.”
― Enock Maregesi

“What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment. These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.”
― Thomas Browne, Urne Burial

“Our egos will be the death of us unless we commit to the death of our egos. In that sense, taking something to its grave is what saves us from one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Entitlement is the shovel that digs a grave of greed. And there are those of us who stand at the bottom of such a grave having thrown out the last shovel full of dirt, never realizing that the grave that we’ve dug is our own until the same shovel suddenly starts backfilling the hole.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.”
― Trisha Leaver, The Secrets We Keep

“Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which it rots.”
― Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod

“At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Your potentials should become blessings to the earth, giving hope to people and solving the problems that you were born to solve, while you yourself go to the grave empty.”
― CLEMENT OGEDEGBE, YOUR POTENTIALS - THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS: â€�.Secrets to unleashing your full potentials and achieving greater heights in life.

“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”
― Steven Magee

“To be knav'd out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations escaped in burning burials.”
― Thomas Browne

“We all know that birth ultimately ends with death.”
― Steven Magee

“See, the Serpent is taken from its hole,
The secrets of Egypt's kings are bared.
See, the residence is fearful from want.
Men stir up strife unopposed.
See, the land is tied up in gangs,
The coward is emboldened to seize his goods.
See, the Serpent the dead.
He who could not make a coffin owns a tomb.
See, those who owned tombs are cast on high ground,
He who could not make a grave owns a treasury.
See now, the transformations of people,
He who did not build a hut is an owner of coffers.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“No one can escape the grave.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You cannot choose the womb that carried you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“If tragedy is about the fact that people are mortal, then comedy is about the fools we make of ourselves on the way to the grave.”
― Ryan Bishop, Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film

“There is more life on a single blade of grass than I can ever comprehend or create...I stay humble in awe of life, not the fear and finality of death. All of the earth is my cradle and my grave.”
― Rian Nejar, Humbling and Humility

“Severe pain makes this weak body collapse,
But it never breaks one soul.
While this human flesh enters a grave,
The soul ascends to thy Kingdom of thy Lord.”
― Bradley B. Dalina

“In the Jewish hypogæum and subterranean cell at Rome, was little observable beside the variety of lamps and frequent draughts of Anthony and Jerome we meet with thigh-bones and death's-heads; but the cemeterial cells of ancient Christians and martyrs were filled with draughts of Scripture stories; not declining the flourishes of cypress, palms, and olive, and the mystical figures of peacocks, doves, and cocks; but iterately affecting the portraits of Enoch, Lazarus, Jonas, and the vision of Ezekiel, as hopeful draughts, and hinting imagery of the resurrection, which is the life of the grave, and sweetens our habitations in the land of moles and pismires.”
― Thomas Browne, Urne Burial

“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently placed them. These were found in a field, according to ancient custom, in noble or private burial; the old practice of the Canaanites, the family of Abraham, and the burying-place of Joshua, in the borders of his possessions; and also agreeable unto Roman practice to bury by highways, whereby their monuments were under eye:--memorials of themselves, and mementoes of mortality unto living passengers; whom the epitaphs of great ones were fain to beg to stay and look upon them,--a language though sometimes used, not so proper in church inscriptions.”
― Thomas Browne, Urne Burial

“They burnt not children before their teeth appeared, as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire, and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relicks after the pyral combustion. That they kindled not fire in their houses for some days after was a strict memorial of the late afflicting fire. And mourning without hope, they had an happy fraud against excessive lamentation, by a common opinion that deep sorrows disturb their ghosts.”
― Thomas Browne, Urne Burial