Charles Dickens Quotes, Tombstone Quotes, White Quotes

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

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At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

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Steel True, Blade Straight.

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I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]

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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

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The Stone the Builders Rejected.

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And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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