A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Cemetery Put Small Small World World

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.

Roberto Juarroz

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

Tod Goldberg

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

Romain Rolland

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

Scott Raab

The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.

Jacques Dubochet

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Elsa Maxwell

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

Rene Leriche

The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.

Myles Munroe

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.

Jessica Sorensen

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

Graham Swift

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

Francois Mauriac

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Tian Dayton

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Robert Alden

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.