Top 182 Cemetery Quotes & Sayings

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.

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

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

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.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

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

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

I like to go to the movies at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. They do this thing in The Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood where everybody sits out on the grass and they project movies and it's very romantic and very old-school Hollywood, so I love that.

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.

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.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

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

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

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.

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.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

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

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

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

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

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.