Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of… — Paul Althaus 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
Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come; And we shall be with those that rest, Asleep within the… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead. — Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Copy Share Image
