It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
- Washington Irving
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
- Henry David Thoreau
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.