37 Grave Quotes About Life

Life is often a tapestry woven with moments of joy, sorrow, reflection, and growth. At times, it is the gravitas of certain events that compels us to ponder the essence of existence more deeply. Grave quotes about life serve as poignant reminders of the complexities and fleeting nature of our journey. They encapsulate truths that resonate with our shared human experience, urging us to embrace each moment with mindfulness and grace. In this curated collection of the top 37 grave quotes about life, you'll find thought-provoking insights that may inspire introspection, empathy, and a deeper appreciation for the intricate beauty of living.

1. “We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.” - Ray Bradbury

2. “When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.” - Virginia Woolf

3. “To the Hesitating Purchaser:"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried GoldAnd all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way,Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:-So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave,His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may IAnd all my pirates share the grave, Where these and their creations lie!” - Robert Louis Stevenson

4. “Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?”“In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.” - Jeaniene Frost

5. “The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.” - Sarah Ash

6. “Body is a home, a prison and a grave.” - James Runcie

7. “Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the starshine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave bereft I am not there. I have not left.” - Mary Elizabeth Frye

8. “ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ” - Samuel Beckett

9. “There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.” - Jeaniene Frost

10. “I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.” - Jeaniene Frost

11. “All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.” - Jeaniene Frost

12. “Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person!” - Jeaniene Frost

13. “He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me.“You and I need to talk, Kitten.”“Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.“It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now.” - Jeaniene Frost

14. “Shit. I hated her already, and we hadn’t even met.” - Jeaniene Frost

15. “Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave mean inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.”The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home inher perfectly arranged hair.” - Jeaniene Frost

16. “I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.” - Andy Warhol

17. “My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.'Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.” - Jeaniene Frost

18. “Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.”There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.” - Jeaniene Frost

19. “You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied.So what? Got something against the French?” - Jeaniene Frost

20. “Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingFrom glen to glen, and down the mountain sideThe summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.But come ye back when summer's in the meadowOr when the valley's hushed and white with snow'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadowOh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.And if you come, when all the flowers are dyingAnd I am dead, as dead I well may beYou'll come and find the place where I am lyingAnd kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above meAnd all my dreams will warm and sweeter beIf you'll not fail to tell me that you love meI'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.” - Fred E. Weatherly

21. “Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.” - Walt Whitman

22. “From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.” - T.F. Hodge

23. “Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")” - Isaac Bashevis Singer

24. “But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")” - Gene Wolfe

25. “What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.” - Criss Jami

26. “With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave.” - Ludwig Tieck

27. “My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.” - Anthony Kiedis

28. “When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.” - Kyung-Sook Shin

29. “But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. It was sunny, and I liked the pine tree that stood bent but tall, but remaining a member of this family even in death would be too much and too hard. To try to change my mind, I would sing and pull weeds, sitting there until the sun set, but nothing made me feel comfortable there. I lived with this family for over fifty years; please let me go now.” - Kyung-Sook Shin

30. “The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.” - C.S. Lewis

31. “If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.” - D.J. MacHale

32. “Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?” - Daniel Handler

33. “We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.” - Kami Garcia

34. “If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.” - Shannon L. Alder

35. “I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.” - John Scalzi

36. “You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.” - Neal Shusterman

37. “I'll be as silent as the grave.” - Stevenson Robert Louis