Burial Quotations

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

She was a good mother to her kids. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay for her burial because she did not have any kind of insurance.

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial

Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.

There are still lots available deeded to specific family members where there hasn't been a burial for 70 to 100 years, and we're investigating ways to take back those lots to be able to use them.

We believe that this (a burial ground) is the best option for those that are not immediately identified.

The president (Harrison) is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

The president is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.

The state will select an appropriate burial site for the people who are not immediately identified. Our primary concern is for the dignity of the deceased.

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

I want a proper burial for her. I do realize that might not happen.

Right now we just want to give her a proper burial and put her to rest.

The Burial Ground Monument is the latest National Park unit created to commemorate an historical tragedy.

You walk back there and see a box lying on a pile of junk -- a deceased individual laid out in a burial suit, a blue suit, obviously embalmed in the box he was supposed to be cremated in -- decomposed.

They've all diversified into cremation products, trying to lose the burial business to themselves.

They gave us less than a 2 percent chance that he would survive. They wanted us to sign papers if we wanted a burial or to donate the body.

Acid was kind of a thing that was done on the day off. We took one trip, got in four or five cars and headed out to the lake, this Indian Burial Ground, we made some films, super 8, you can see us running around in the dark, stayed out all night, no sleeping bags, that didn't seem strange, just lay down on the ground to sleep, on acid.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

The burial of feelings has begun.

You've got better protection buying a set of tires right now, than you would purchasing burial services.

All these towers are the burial places of the nobles, and every chapel in them is dedicated to a particular idol, to which they pay their devotions.

The college is on an Indian burial ground. That's why we get the curse of the wind. I said that when I coached the guys, and it's still true to this day.

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

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.