Unknown. The Unquiet Grave

Famous quotes containing the words unknown, unquiet and/or grave:

    “Out of the earth to rest or range
    Perpetual in perpetual change,
    The unknown passing through the strange.”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)

    “And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
    The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
    And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
    Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)