To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in α stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”