A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.
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.
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.
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.
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.
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
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.
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.
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.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
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.
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
All that glisters is not gold.
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.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.
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.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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