Buried Quotes

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones

“At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

“The dead are immune from our prison of Time. The distance between the living and dead may be vast, but the space of Time the dead experience when they are reunited with their loved ones is only paper-thin.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Every hurt buried deep
in the mind
has an uncanny ability
to surface and make
its presence felt
when I am feeling low,
hugging me
like a long lost friend”
― Vijaya Gowrisankar

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I, the half-mad mourner of buried days,”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Maybe we are living already inside our own graves.”
― Laura Chouette

“Come, let's go
Snow-viewing
Till we're buried.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Lips Too Chilled

“We have failed to see truth right in front of us because we have been buried into an obfuscated mindset by theologies and cultural mores made by theologies that themselves have been created by diseases.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives

“Sooner or later even the stoutest coffin must collapse and let in life to feed on death.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“Love is like gold: it does not lose its value, no matter how deep it is buried.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“The dress I seek cannot be found.
It is tucked away deeply inside
the constant flickering shadows
of my very absent mind.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“When you are dead and buried
Do your thoughts and memories bubble to the surface?”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“In the name of caste
they buried him alive
however, blood knows
no religion and
dying in the name of love
is still a victory
- humanity is greater”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“He punched and thrashed around as he lay in his coffin and he felt his leg swinging in unnatural ways and his knuckles ached with the blood and bruises from trying to fight his way out.”
― Chris Cummings, Shards

“Something that had been stolen from her - but whatever it was- hope maybe, or joy - it had been buried long before it could flower.”
― Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder

“It’s instinctive to want to be buried on the land you come from. It has energetic importance. Aboriginal people got their spiritual bearings by knowing their ancestors were in certain places. It is an energetic navigational system. We would do the same, if we are sufficiently connected to the land and our body. Anyone aware that from soil they come and to soil they will return remains deeply connected to their roots.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“I'd hate to be buried with my coworkers!”
― Steven Magee

“In death, the spirit disappears without notice nor nothing taken. Only the body remains, which must be buried.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Jesus died the most brutal kind of death ever devised by man, He was buried in a tomb that He didn’t even own because He didn’t plan on living there anyway, and He did what no one in the entire span of human history has ever done…He reversed His own murder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our humanity possesses needs of such depth and intensity that the whole of our humanity itself is woefully inadequate in its ability to meet those needs. And while such an amazing paradox would readily invite us to embrace the notion that something greater than us exists, we adamantly ignore any such possibility. As such, we run ourselves to a host of graves where we bury the precious parts of ourselves that should never have been buried. And I would suggest that Christmas was the time that God came so that every grave would remain empty because every need would be met.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A nation can’t rise if its people are emotionally buried.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Not everything buried is meant to stay hidden. Some truths wait for the right hands to lift them back into the light.”
― Lawrence Nault