Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Frank McCourt

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher