Tombs Quotes

42 quotes by 36 authors

• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. — Emily Dickinson
• Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
• But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric… — George Eliot
• Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and… — Gustave Flaubert
• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded… — William Shakespeare
• For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• …and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off… — Gilbert Sorrentino
• We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a… — Clive Barker
• And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she… — George Eliot
• For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where… — Ray Bradbury
• Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or… — Bram Stoker
• What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs. — Rick Riordan
• Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But… — Rick Riordan
• ..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient… — William Wordsworth
• You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion.… — Joyce Meyer
• All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded… — William Shakespeare
• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best… — Bob Dylan
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And… — Emily Dickinson
• Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead… — Maggie Stiefvater

Who Wrote These Tombs Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 42 Tombs Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Tombs Quotes by George Eliot
• 2 Tombs Quotes by Emily Dickinson
• 2 Tombs Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 Tombs Quotes by Rick Riordan
• 2 Tombs Quotes by Zahi Hawass
• 1 Tombs Quote by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 Tombs Quote by Herman Melville
• 1 Tombs Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Tombs Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 Tombs Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Tombs Quote by Gilbert Sorrentino
• 1 Tombs Quote by Clive Barker
• 1 Tombs Quote by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Tombs Quote by Bram Stoker
• 1 Tombs Quote by William Wordsworth
• 1 Tombs Quote by Joyce Meyer
• 1 Tombs Quote by Bob Dylan
• 1 Tombs Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Tombs Quote by Maggie Stiefvater
• 1 Tombs Quote by Robert Smithson
• 1 Tombs Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Tombs Quote by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
• 1 Tombs Quote by Gregory Corso
• 1 Tombs Quote by Marie-Luise Gothein
• 1 Tombs Quote by Halle Berry