Tomb Quotes

200 Tomb quotes by 151 unique authors

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Unknown Author
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it,… — Sterling Hayden
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance? — Michelle Paver
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground. — William Cowper
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without… — Pericles
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there… — Pericles
One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire… — Studs Terkel
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing… — Os Guinness
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the… — John Keats
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact… — Socrates
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in… — Pericles
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its… — Frederick Douglass
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to… — Pope Pius XII
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am… — John D. MacDonald
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the… — Benito Mussolini
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent — Logan Pearsall Smith
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to… — Robert Emmet
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not… — Zahi Hawass
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb. — Zahi Hawass
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,… — Dawn Powell
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is… — J.R. Miller
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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