Quotes of Tomb - somelinesforyou

“ Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elf's Catacomb? ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. ”

- Bible

“ I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

“ But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. ”

- John Milton

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ 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

“ Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ”

- Abraham J. Heschel

“ For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. ”

- Bible

“ Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. ”

- Seneca

“ Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. ”

- Bible

“ I want to find their remains to give then a dignified burial. ”

- Geronimo

“ I think it should be given a reasonable burial. ”

- Tony Blair

“ The beautiful uncut hair of graves. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. ”

- Bible

“ All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. ”

- Stan Dale

“ And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. ”

- Bible

“ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. ”

- Bible

“ Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ”

- Seneca

“ Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. ”

- Bible

“ Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. ”

- Bible

“ Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ”

- Bible

“ It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ 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 Sayers

“ How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! ”

- Jules Verne
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