Tombs Quotes

• 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

  Love, Paradise, Resurrection

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

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Two, World, Limits

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• No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Death, Real

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Clothes, Embroidery, Suits

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

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Museums, Looks

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

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

  Herman Melville

  Doubt, Atheism, Literature

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.7.

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• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Feelings, Literature

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

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• 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

  Kings, Stars, Son

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• 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

  Religious, Sage, Body

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• 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

  Faith, Fall, Knowing Nothing

  Stephen King (1985). “Danse Macabre”, Berkley

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

  Plato

  Sea, Wish, May

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• Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

  Horace

  House, Forgetful

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• 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

  Mean, Found, Crocodiles

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

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

  Solomon

  Strong, Love Is, Love Is Strong

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• 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

  Khufu, Pyramids, Next

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• All that glisters is not gold.

  Common

  Inspirational, Venice, Gold

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• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Positive

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

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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

  Character, Men, Hands

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

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• 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

  Kings, Freedom, Rights

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Gold

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.57

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• 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

  Sea, Land, Tree

  Song: Stone, Album: Close

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• 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

  Morning, Lying, Twilight

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• A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thieves, Golden

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• 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

  Kings, Father, Taken

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