I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions. '
Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.
Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.
The cemetery is full of indispensable people.
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?
Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.