He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“~Often in the music of the wind in some stony place recalled to mind neglected tombs that now are seldom traced hold… — Aine MacAodha Copy Share Image
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed… — Martial Copy Share Image
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God,… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with… — Charles Reznikoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them?” — Doma Publishing House Copy Share Image
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was… — Norman Anderson Copy Share Image
Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
