Evil Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

“Since the beginning of storytelling, he explained, Death has called on the unwitting. In one tale or another, it arrives quietly in town and…

— Amor Towles

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

— Seneca the Younger

“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang up in…

— Arundhati Roy

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and…

— Catharine Arnold

“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

“Who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rests in unvisited tombs.”

— George Eliot

“He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like…

— Charmian Hussey

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts…

— William Shakespeare

“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and…

— Charles Dickens

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are…

— Andre Malraux

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one…

— Isaac Marion