Tomb Quotes · Page 3

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

— Anonymous

“My body is not a tomb for other creatures.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

— William Shakespeare

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

— Benjamin Disraeli

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

— James Beattie

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry.

— Rhianna Pratchett

“truly, on the brink of the tomb no animosity should ever find a resting-place in the human heart.”

— George W.M. Reynolds

“There are wise ways to enter a tomb cavern. Falling is not one of them.”

— Jenna Burtenshaw

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”

— Jean Paul

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

— Anthony Sampson

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

— Josh McDowell

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

— Robert Emmet

“Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I still rate the bit in the first 'Tomb Raider' where the T Rex comes round the end of the valley and…

— Rhianna Pratchett

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

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

“Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording…

— Clark Ashton Smith

The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the…

— Chauncey Depew

“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]”

— Christopher Wren

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too…

— Emily Dickinson

Merciful and everliving God, Creator of heaven and earth, the crucified body of your Son was laid in the tomb and rested…

— Andy Kinsey

And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in…

— William Butler Yeats

“The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition.…

— Anthony Liccione

“THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. Poor or rich, You will die with Only…

— Suzy Kassem

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,…

— Archimedes

“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things…

— Nâzım Hikmet

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,…

— William Shakespeare

“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps…

— Victor Hugo

“You cannot choose the womb that carried you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Tomb Raider, sooner or later. The way you move that ass so innovative.

— Trey Songz

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

— Ryan Lindley

“You cannot choose the womb that houses you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

— Chris Smith

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

— Zahi Hawass

“From the manger to the empty tomb, the message is the same: “Do not be afraid.”

— Nick Chellsen

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

— John Milton

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