#grave

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

#grave #holocaust #death

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

#death #grave #seeking-comfort #death

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#affection #grave

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#democracy #grave #i #press #take

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#any #church #circumstances #does #every

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#aware #become #danger #experience #get

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Pericles

#engraved #into #leave #lives #monuments

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#finishes #grave #halfway #his #only

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#grave #his #lincoln #over #today