But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? (The Little Stranger)

~ Gene Wolfe

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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

Georg Büchner Creation Grave Void

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.

~ Bruce R. Mcconkie

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His rising from death on the third day crowned the Atonement. Again, in some way incomprehensible to us, the effects of his resurrection pass upon all men so that all shall rise from the grave.

~ Bruce R. Mcconkie

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Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door.

~ Patricia Raybon

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It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

~ Jared Brock

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If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

~ Thomas Paine

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The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

~ Sheri Webber

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I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.

~ Chila Woychik

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This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

~ Chila Woychik

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The fire is coming and even we are not safe in the grave.

~ Adeosun Olamide

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Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

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It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

~ Anthony Liccione

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These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

~ Kami Garcia

Kami Garcia Grave Think Visit

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

~ Washington Irving

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...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

~ Pietro Candido Decembrio

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Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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I'd rather dig my own grave than rot in the sun.

~ Maritza Compos

Maritza Compos Commitment Grave

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

~ John Scalzi

John Scalzi Army Birthday Dramatic Grave Joined Wife

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

~ Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda Fall Grave Love Poetry Together

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

~ Joseph Hall

Joseph Hall Birth Grave Borders

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Old Age Forgetting Grave

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

~ Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish Wit Grave Tomb

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy Affection Grave

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Solomon Ibn Gabirol Fire Grave Cruel

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

~ James Fallows

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