Clothes Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

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

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

— Suzy Menkes

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

— Khalil Gibran

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for…

— Euripides

One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a…

— Demetri Martin

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

— James Runcie

I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be…

— Alice Thomas Ellis