Tombs Quotes:

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

- Hannah Webster Foster

source: Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

topic: Tombs

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.

- Solomon

topic: Fire, Embers, Tombs

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.330, Courier Corporation

topic: Cities, Tombs, Tale Of Two Cities

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

- Lewis Mumford

source: Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

topic: Architecture, Prophecy, Tombs

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

- Adolf Hitler

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Paris, Moments, Tombs

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

source: Ludwig van Beethoven (2017). “Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

topic: Composer, Handel, Tombs

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Mail, Exile, Tombs

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

- George Orwell

topic: Tombs, Hospitals

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

- David Levithan

source: David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Stories, Forgotten, Tombs

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Thieves, Golden, Tombs

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

topic: Peer Pressure, Cradle, Tombs

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

- Bram Stoker

source: Bram Stoker (2012). “Dracula”, p.319, Courier Corporation

topic: Tombs, One Word, Huge

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.56

topic: Mother, Earth, Tombs

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Made, Tombs

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Hate, Would Be, Tombs

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

- Nathalia Crane

source: "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

topic: Rose, Indifferent, Tombs

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Retirement, Amusement, Tombs

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

- Mark Twain

topic: Death, Real, Graves, Black Humor, Tombs

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

topic: Two, World, Limits, Tombs

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Paradise, Resurrection, Tombs

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Clothes, Embroidery, Suits, Tombs

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

- Stephen King

topic: Faith, Fall, Knowing, Blackness, Macabre

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

- Solomon

topic: Strong, Love Is, Love Is Strong, Tombs

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

- Socrates

topic: Religious, Sage, Body, Tombs

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

- Robert Smithson

source: Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

topic: Museums, Looks, Tombs

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Heart, Quartz, Emily

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

- Josh McDowell

topic: Tradition, Empty, Source, Tombs

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Jesus, Winter, Empty, Tombs

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Jesus, Stones, Reason, Tombs

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

- Horace

topic: House, Forgetful, Tombs

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

- Zahi Hawass

source: "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.

topic: Mean, Crocodiles, Inscriptions, Hippo, Tombs

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Matters Of The Heart, My Heart Is Broken

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Morning, Lying, Twilight, Alleys, Tombs

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Kings, Stars, Son, Withered, Gondor

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

- Herman Melville

source: 1851 Moby Dick, ch.7.

topic: Doubt, Atheism, Literature, Jackals, Tombs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

- Plato

topic: Sea, Wish, May, Mariners, Kinder

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

topic: Memories, Office, Failing, Tombs

All that glisters is not gold.

- Common

topic: Gold, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous, Merchants, Misquoting

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Gold, Old Love, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Jesus, Fall, Garden, Garden Of Eden, Gethsemane

Marriage is the tomb of love.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Tombs

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

- Zahi Hawass

topic: Pyramids, Khufu, Next, Tombs

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

- John Clare

topic: Sweet, Fall, World, Tiptoes, Overcast

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

topic: Blow, Cowardice, Holes, Tombs

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence...

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Heart, Light, Dungeons, Revelry, Vividness

Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. So man and woman will keep their trust, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in. For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife, And the word of Love is the Word of Life. And they that go with the Word unsaid, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

- William Ernest Henley

source: William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

topic: Life, Running, Spring, Desire Love, Tombs

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

- Billy Graham

topic: Kings, Freedom, Rights, Inscriptions, Tombs

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

- Kim Wilde

topic: Sea, Land, Tree, Tombs

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

- Eusebius

topic: Kings, Father, Taken, Tombs

The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.40, B Times

topic: Character, Men, Hands, Interesting Characters, Old Churches

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

topic: Doors, Giving, Heaven, Tombs

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

- Richard Wurmbrand

topic: Christian, Jesus, Years, Mary Magdalene, Tombs

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

- Sterling Hayden

source: Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Dream, Lying, Years, Tombs

The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.

- Norman Anderson

topic: Easter, Rocks, Essentials, Tombs

The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

- Bob Dylan

topic: Sleep, Past, Men, Burying, Mausoleum

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls - that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

- Teresa de la Parra

topic: Wall, Memories, Garden, Stone Walls, Tombs

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Death, Justice, Honor, Probity, Tombs

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Spring, Men, Long, Mustard, Mustard Seed

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

topic: Kings, Men, Thinking, Free Your Mind, Tombs

I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Easter, Moving, Religion, Apparitions, Tombs

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

topic: Memorable, Bed, Care, Tombs

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Success, Integrity, Artist, Artistic Integrity, Tombs

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Sports, Art, Enemy, Tombs

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

- Martial

source: Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.400

topic: Husband, Chloe, Shameless, Inscriptions, Tombs

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

- Patti Davis

topic: Lying, Father, Moving, Tombs