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Graves Quotes - Page 7

I hate to break this to you: One of these days I'm going to die. I expect that when I croak I'll no longer be using Twitter, unless I can do it from the grave.

I hate to break this to you: One of these days I'm going to die. I expect that when I croak I'll no longer be using Twitter, unless I can do it from the grave.

"Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

Elizabeth Bowen, Maud Ellman (2012). “The Hotel: A Novel”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.326, Hachette UK

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

"MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.37, BookCaps Study Guides

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

William Cowper (1820). “Poems: In two volumes. Embellished with engravings, and a sketch of his life”, p.339

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Sir Thomas Browne (1841). “Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse on Sepulchral Urns”, p.79

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.273