“Somebody just walked over my grave.” – Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 27. Aunt Alexandra says this right before Scout and Jem leave for the pageant. This foreshadows the trouble and evil that is about to befall the children.
Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein digs up buried bodies to animate a creature.
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. – Quentin Crisp
The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave. – The Bible Proverbs 15:24
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we’re the biggest weirdos on the block. – Billy Bob Thornton
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? – The Bible Hosea 13:14
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. – John Lothrop Motley
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. – Ludwig Quidde
It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers. – Jose Maria Aznar
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave – with both ends kicked out. – Vance Havner
