"Sympathy is the softener of death, and memory of the loved and the lost is the earthly shadow of their immortality. But who turns aside amid those crowds that hurry through the thronged and noisy streets?—No one can love London better than I do; but never do I wish to be buried there. It is the best place in the world for a house, and the worst for a grave."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836 (1835) 'Scenes in London.—The City Churchyard'
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grave_(burial)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Grave (burial)
84 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Grave (burial) →
Related Quotes
"GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student."
"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
"Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save."
"The foot in the grave."
"There is an acre sown with royal seed."
"Put off boasting, give up self-conceit and remember your grave."
"Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet …"
"Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark — a shining space With the grave's narrowness, though …"
"They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and …"
"The grave Is but the threshold of eternity."