Altars Quote by Madame de Stael

“I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and around the…

— Linda Fairstein

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

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

— Seneca the Younger

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

— Khalil Gibran

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

— Edgar Cayce

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is…

— Alain de Botton

“Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the…

— Jim Butcher

“Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now ’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death,…

— Herman Melville

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison