"O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?"
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"Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave"
"And either victory, or else a grave."
"Every man is grave alone."
"Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you."
"Pretty girls make graves"
"Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may."
"He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."
"Even cities have their graves!"
"Never the grave gives back what it has won!"
"You can run from the grave, but you can't hide."
"There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave."
"Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do."
"Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves."
"Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy."
"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
"Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat."
"I take this continent with me into the grave."
"Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else."
"There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air."