"The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!"
- Israelmore Ayivor
"We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing ..."
- Thomas Ligotti
"Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This..."
- K.J. Bishop
"You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponeth..."
- Munia Khan
"I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk ..."
- Anne Rice
"the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in."
- Italo Calvino
"Cemeteries can be creepy, creepy, ‘specially at night."
- Jason Medina
"Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the alre..."
- Chris Bohjalian
"They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries."
- Paul Zindel
"Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten b..."
- Catharine Arnold