Top 185 Grave Quotes

I’m building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a ‘Star Wars’ project. My life goal is to have a character in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
Rahul Kohli
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
I don’t want to be the person digging my own grave.
Katherine Heigl
A man who would not love his father’s grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
Matthew Simpson
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no lo

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
Robert Schumann
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Douglas Coupland
There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.
Noam Chomsky
I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
Sebastian Coe
Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we’ll never find them through violence.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner
I’m one of these guys who believes you represent the people who sent you to Washington, D.C., not matter what the cost. The cost could be very grave.
Mark Meadows
I’m out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It’ll be a big boost for men’s superiority.
Bobby Riggs
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
Wim Wenders
The danger of that – and there’s a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of – is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
Leo Ornstein
The vampires in the ‘VAMPS’ series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don’t get along very well. So you’ve got a culture that’s from cradle to grave like the worst high school you’ve ever been in.
Nancy A. Collins
I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall
I don’t remember how I picked up ‘Different Seasons,’ but it was a book I read on a grave shift. I was absolutely floored by it; ‘The Body,’ a story about kids who go searching for a corpse in the woods, impacted me especially.
Khaled Hosseini
Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you feel more pressure you learn how to cope with that.
Gianluca Vialli
Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.
Nostradamus
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
Frank Richard Stockton
During this period, Japan’s peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Hideki Tojo
The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It’s her duty. For her country, she’s selfless to the grave.
Sarah Ferguson
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can’t address such concerns.
Ban Ki-moon
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
Howard Fineman
I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It’ll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don’t mind that, because it was a great character.
Frances McDormand
Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.
Tammy Faye Bakker
Social care from cradle to grave is a huge concern for us all.
Luciana Berger
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Everything about me is so odd: I look weird. I have a nasal voice. I’m arrogant. my singing raises the dead from the grave. I am inspired by Altaf Raja, as one report mentioned, and so much more. I have stopped fighting all these rumours and remarks.
Himesh Reshammiya
We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
Ban Ki-moon
Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
Carolyn Chute
You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don’t close the book. Don’t give up.
Lillete Dubey
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.
Shane Douglas
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential st

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.
David A. Bednar
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
Tom Brokaw
Sivaji’ was a fantastic movie. It is one movie I am going to take back to my grave and like a greedy actor, I want more such movies in my career.
Shriya Saran
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
I guess I’ll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I’ve made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild
Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
Kate Williams
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Jean Paul
There’s a saying in Africa: ‘To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.’
Liya Kebede
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase
Obama and his staff’s sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.
Mike Gallagher
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
Spalding Gray
I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.
Betsy Beers
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Gerald Durrell
Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It’s like a built-in design fault. You can’t do anything about it.
Naveen Andrews
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate – which is why Mitt Romney’s political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia
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
I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.
Lina Wertmuller
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
Samuel Beckett
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he’d be spinning in his grave.
Ralph Kiner
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey
Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.
Pope Francis
If funding for DHS is delayed, it will have a grave effect on Washington’s economy as commerce grinds to a halt along the Canadian border.
Suzan DelBene