Robert Graves Quotes

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Death is the most blessed dream.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.