#cemetery

The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time ↗

— Bob Dylan

#new-orleans #men

It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness. ↗

— Rob Bignell

#gravestone #meaninglessness #tombstone #men

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#moon #paris

Even though I buried our love in a coffin, it isn’t dead. No, our love is very much alive. Or at least it was yesterday, when I went to visit the cemetery. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#buried #bury #cemetery #coffin #dead

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cemetery #every #every man #faults #friends

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#like #look #scout #talent #you

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

I just started working the graveyard shift at the cemetery. Come to think of it, every shift at the cemetery is the graveyard shift. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #graveyard-shift #funny

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#cemetery #crow #falcon #him #king