Quotes Tagged With :burial

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her;....

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning....

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three....

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some....

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he,....

EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead....

Handling a dead body is not a repugnant or frightening experience and, somehow, it helps to accept the....

THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough.....

The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting....