Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest. . . The dead do not suffer.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.
I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?