The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.