Quotes about Burial

“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”