Cathedral Quote by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Outside, I take in the fact that the night is deeply dusky and warm, and that feels like a balm after the cold air…

— Gilly Macmillan

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The eeriness of the weeping moss from the trees, reminding me of shrouds covering the faces of mourners. There are people coming home from…

— Rachel Renee

“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

“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 tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

“As the prospect gradually revealed itself and disclosed the scene over which the wind had wandered in the dark, like my memory over my…

— Charles Dickens

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors.…

— Oscar Wilde

“The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of…

— George Sterling

“The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time…

— Sarah Ash

“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun…

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich

“Like rings in a large tree trunk that had been logged and exposed, every year of her life was visible in the wrinkles that…

— S.W. Lothian