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Grave Quotes


"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."


"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."


"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."


"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."


"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."


"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."


"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."


"We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave."


"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."


"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."
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