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Burying Quotes

Reflective quotes on burying loss, grudges, and the weight of debt.

These quotes explore burying in both literal and figurative senses, from a somber memory of burying a young girl who had died of a ruptured appendix to a warning about generations being buried under mounting debt. The tone throughout is reflective rather than light.

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that...

Quotes by Tove Jansson

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Quotes by Tommy Douglas

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so that one day someone would dig it up, like a time capsule.

Quotes by Stephen Morris

Age Quotes

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Quotes by Paul Eldridge

There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.

Quotes by Patrick Murphy

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Quotes by Mike Pence

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

Quotes by Matt Bevin

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Quotes by Herbert Read

Alive Quotes

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a...

Quotes by Edward Bach

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Quotes by Ed Begley, Jr.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

Quotes by David Slade

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

Quotes by David R. Brower

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

Quotes by David Blaine

Business Quotes

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.

Quotes by Brian Schatz

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Quotes by Betty Friedan

I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

Quotes by Bastian Schweinsteiger

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those...

Quotes by Amy Grant

Change Quotes

Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.

Quotes by Alejo Carpentier

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Burying" quotes explore?
They use "burying" both literally — burying the dead, a dog burying bones — and figuratively, as in burying debt on future generations or burying a hatchet that isn't truly over.
Why would someone look up quotes about "burying"?
The verb works for loss, finality, and unresolved conflict alike, so people search it out when writing about grief, forgiveness, or long-term consequences.
What does the quote about burying a girl at fourteen describe?
It's a personal, sombre recollection of attending burials, including someone who died young from a ruptured appendix, reflecting on loss experienced early in life.
What does the quote about "burying generations under debt" mean?
It criticizes bailing out failing Business as building up debt that future generations will have to carry, framed as a warning about long-term consequences rather than a specific policy debate.
What's the point of the quote about burying a hatchet with a marker?
It argues that truly moving past a conflict means letting it go completely — putting up a marker over a buried hatchet defeats the purpose, since it keeps drawing attention back to the disagreement.

Two other quotes turn to forgiveness, noting the pointlessness of burying a hatchet only to mark where it lies, alongside dogs burying bones as part of an idealized natural life. See Change and Age quotes for related reading.