Tombs Quotes - Page 13

• It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

  Jim Carroll

  Falling In Love, Too Late, Want

  Song: It's Too Late

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• My thoughts hold mortal strife, I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries, Peace to my soul to bring, Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize; But he, grim-grinning king, Who caitiffs scorns and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.

  William Drummond

  Sad, Weed, Kings

  William Drummond, Peter Cunningham (1833). “The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham”, p.234

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• Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  House, Passing Away, Meat

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

  Paul Eldridge

  Believe, Tin, Crowns

  Paul Eldridge (1960). “Seven against the night”

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• The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.

  David Icke

  Sacrifice, Men, Osiris

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• The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Heart, Differences, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Paul Evdokimov, 1968.

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• It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

  Isaac Marion

  Eerie, Civilization, Cities

  Isaac Marion (2013). “The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies”, p.22, Random House

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• I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.

  Howard Carter

  Kings, Science, Thinking

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• The tomb in Palestine
  Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
  It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

  Wallace Stevens

  Jesus, Spirit, Graves

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Long, Steps

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• With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.

  William Tecumseh Vernon

  Freedom, Angel, Race

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Hate, Would Be

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

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• There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Men, Dust

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Giving, Events

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• Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

  Anthony Sampson

  Egyptian, Liable, Monarchy

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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• Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

  Robert Emmet

  Writing, Men, Inscriptions

  Robert Emmet (1803). “The trial of Robert Emmet: upon an indictment for high treason. Special commission”, p.111

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• The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

  Gus Van Sant

  Kids, Games, Elephants

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• Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Graves, Wit

  'Plays' (1662) p. 525

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• I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

  Daniel Silva

  Cities, Shopping, Moscow

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• This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

  Jan de Bont

  Challenges, Film, Bigs

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• Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
  How sang the angelic choir that day,
  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
  Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

  Frederick William Faber

  Easter, Strong, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.88

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• He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

  Thomas Browne

  Lying, Want, Graves

  Sir Thomas Browne (1841). “Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse on Sepulchral Urns”, p.79

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Stars, Rivers

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• 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

  Rome, Years, Broken

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.98

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