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1 " [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. "
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
2 " If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened. "
3 " Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be. "
― Christine Feehan , Dark Demon (Dark, #13)
4 " You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. "
― Gordon MacKenzie
5 " I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.''No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams—only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'. "
6 " What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave... "
7 " Am I mistaken to think that even back then, in the vivid present, the fullness of life stirred our emotions to an extraordinary extent? Has anywhere since so engrossed you in its ocean of details? The detail, the immensity of the detail, the force of the detail,the weight of the detailthe rich endlessness of detail surrounding you in your young life like the six feet of dirt that’ll be packed on your grave when you’re dead "
― Philip Roth , American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
8 " [I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? "
― Richard Dawkins , Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
9 " You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson
10 " Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames. "
― Matthew Gregory Lewis , The Monk
11 " Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? "
