7 quotes about Burial

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

— Beckett, Samuel

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

— Book Of Common Prayer

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

— Heraclitus

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

— Marlowe, Christopher

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

— Parkinson, Norman

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

— Whitman, Walt

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

— Whittier, John Greenleaf