Cells Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but…

— Victor Hugo

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

— Alexander MacLaren

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On…

— Victor Hugo

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

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

— Seneca the Younger

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This…

— J.R. Miller

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

— George Orwell

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

— Charlotte Armstrong

Death is the room that is always empty.

— John Fowles