Tombs Quotes - Page 8

Great is the rose
Infected by the tomb,
Yet burgeoning
Indifferent to death.

Nathalia Crane

Rose, Indifferent

"Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

House, Next, Messages

"Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.

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Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Hannah Webster Foster

Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

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In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'

Seanbaby

Fighting, Men, Jeans

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Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

Opportunity, Empires, Witness

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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

War, Civil War

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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

Edgar Allan Poe

Moon, Color, Feet

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

George Eliot

Life, Numbers, Obscurity

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Soren Kierkegaard

Thinking, Years, Pharisees

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The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mother, Heart, Sorrow

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.86, Sparklesoup LLC

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This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you.

John Keats

Dream, Heart, Night

'This living hand, now warm and capable' (written 1819)

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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Body

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You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.

Joyce Meyer

Jesus, Morning, Sunday

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Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb. You should look under the bed.

N.D. Wilson

Cousin, Men, Bed

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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change, Mother, Daughter

'The Cloud' (1819)

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I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

William Blake

Sweet, Flower, Garden

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl
Turnin' this woman's womb into a tomb
But she and I agree, a seed we don't need
You would've been much more than a mouth to feed
But someone I would've fed this information I read
To someone my life for you I would've had to leave
Instead I led you to death.

Common

Girl, Mother, Rap

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The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

William Lane Craig

Christian, Jesus, Easter

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It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween!

Jack Prelutsky

Kings, Queens, Halloween

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For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

Marie-Luise Gothein

Death, Taken, Garden

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When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb.

Dennis Miller

Football, Mean, Moon

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Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal sin. He it was who, through His atoning sacrifice, broke the bonds of death and with godly power rose triumphant from the tomb. He is our Redeemer, the Redeemer of all mankind. He is the Savior of the world. He is the Son of God, the Author of our salvation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Son, Godly, Sacrifice

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Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

Louis Auguste Blanqui

Heart, Feelings, Brain

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Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when the abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter's best of all:
And after that there's nothing good
Because the spring time has not come-
Not know that what disturbs our blood
Is but its longing for the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

Death, Summer, Spring

William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Tower: A Facsimile Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Simone Weil

Heart, Evil, Teeth

Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

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