Sepulchre Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
— Thucydides
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in…
— Peter Chrysologus
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,…
— John Evelyn
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Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
— Ivan Bunin
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility…
— Louis Bernacchi
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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
— John Clare
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King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
— Charles Lamb
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Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages,…
— Reginald Heber
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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd…
— Alexander Pope
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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
— John Milton
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Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for…
— James Anthony Froude
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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…just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down…
— John Bunyan
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And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:…
— Bible
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And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Sepulchre Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Sepulchre Quotes as follows: