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Cemetery Quotes

Dark humor, mortality, and dead ideas.

One line calls science a cemetery of dead ideas; another jokes about turning every tombstone into a defunct craft beer brand. These cemetery quotes treat the graveyard as equal parts proverb, punchline, and plain fact.

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

Quotes by Sophie Hannah

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Quotes by Satish Kumar

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

Quotes by Robert Klein

'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.

Quotes by Paul Cleave

Baseball Quotes

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Quotes by Juan Manuel Fangio

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Quotes by Henry IV

Beer Quotes

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Quotes by Franco Nero

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Quotes by Babe Ruth

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does the 'Cemetery' quotes page cover?
These quotes use the cemetery both literally and as a metaphor - a place of finality, but also a stand-in for outdated ideas or failed ventures.
Is there a poetic or proverb-style quote about cemeteries here?
Yes - one line uses the imagery of a falcon's wing bringing honor to a king, while a crow's wing leads to the cemetery, contrasting glory with a mundane end.
Does this collection compare cemeteries to something unexpected?
Yes - one quote calls science a cemetery of dead ideas, suggesting that progress happens by discarding theories that no longer hold up, not despite it.
Is there a lighter, more humorous cemetery quote?
Yes - one quote jokes about turning every tombstone in a cemetery into a memorial for a defunct craft beer brand, poking fun at how many beer companies have come and gone.
Why do people search for cemetery quotes?
They're often used for reflective or darkly humorous writing about endings, mortality, or failure, similar to readers browsing Behind quotes for reflective, past-tense themes.

For more on mortality handled with a wink, see our beer quotes and behind quotes pages.