Body Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“The sarcophagus was huge. Nearly a ton in weight and almost as wide as it was long. He squeezed around it patting it with…

— Julian Noyce

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing…

— Margaret Atwood

“For centuries, the ancient Zoroastrian method of disposal of the dead has been a source of curiosity among outsiders: from Herodotus and Strabo in…

— Jenny Rose

I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the…

— Zahi Hawass

he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls...

— Stephen King

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances…

— Madame de Stael

'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet,…

— Homer

The proud of flesh , When confronted death , Sattered in pieces,just ashes were left .

— Senoraroy

“On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble—for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone—was a…

— Bram Stoker

“Apparently she judged the souls of the dead by weighing their hearts against a feather; if she deemed a soul unworthy, it was sent…

— Michelle Hodkin

“Burials in Cahokia could be astonishingly elaborate. In one, a man was buried on a bed of twenty thousand beads of shell. Nearby three…

— Jake Page