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  • ... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the mystery, not in nature. The water, then, is a witness of burial, the blood is a witness of death, the Spirit is a witness of life. If, then, there be any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water, but from the presence of the Holy Spirit.

    Christian   Blood   Water  
  • Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

    Honest   Burial  
    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

    Death   Fit   Burial  
  • A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

    Dream   Struggle   Book  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company
  • Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

    Dog   War   Men  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270
  • There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

    Funny   Simple   Sea  
  • Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

    Numbers   People   Bills  
    Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
  • Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

    Secret   Mystery   Burial  
    Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

    Life   Long   Dying  
    'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5
  • Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

    Stress   Funeral   Cost  
    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

    Names   People   Trying  
  • HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

    Night   Doe   Hyenas  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社
  • An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

    Men   Broken   Giving  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21
  • POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

    Pockets   Alive   Sin  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社
  • There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

    Games   House   Firsts  
    Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub
  • Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

    Life   Men   Literature  
  • All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.

    Change   Cheer   Flower  
    William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247
  • Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

    Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam
  • ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media
  • One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

  • To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known.

  • All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

    Death   Thinking   Desire  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.365, Oxford University Press
  • Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

    Taken   Kitchen   Ham  
    George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.8, Hamilton Books
  • We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  • Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

    Paris   Dinner   Way  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”
  • I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.

    Believe   Doubt   Desire  
  • I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

    Wall   Sleep   Dust  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.50
  • Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks
  • How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

    Time   Pain   Eye  
    William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
  • As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

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