Tombs Quotes - Page 11

• Take what the old-church
  found in Mithra's tomb,
  candle and script and bell,
  take what the new-church spat upon
  and broke and shattered.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I--love's skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb--
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother's womb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  Cleopatra

  Lying, Soil, Egyptian

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• In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Humility, Cities

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons III/11”, p.286

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• Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Running, Dream, Hope

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• They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .

  Tacitus

  Father, Names, Greek

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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• We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Dark, Long

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.665, Delphi Classics

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• The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Ends, Babe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

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• Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Suffering, Speech

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

  Joseph Addison

  Years, Yesterday, Great Day

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.284

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• When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Kings, Tombstone

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.83

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Prison

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
  Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
  The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
  And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dream, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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• we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Growing Up, Anger, Tree

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

  Madame de Stael

  Mail, Exile

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• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Trying, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.170, Grove Press

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• At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Religion, Three

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Clothes, Devil, May

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• When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

  James Shirley

  Dwelling, Soul, Action

  James Shirley (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Now First Collected: The grateful servant. The traitor. Love's cruelty. Love in a maze. The bird in a cage. Hyde Park”, p.174

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• Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Fighting, Hazards, Satisfaction

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• It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Dragons, Care, Able

  "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor". www.salon.com. August 01, 2008.

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

  Ryan Lindley

  Illegal, Things To Do, Contrary

  In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,

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