Tomb Quotes

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb! (Robert Browning)
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? View quote
Kahlil Gibran
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. View quote
Emil Cioran
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. View quote
Anthony Sampson
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. View quote
Howard Carter
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. View quote
Edmund Burke
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. View quote
Francis Bacon
Marriage is the tomb of love. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb. View quote
Zahi Hawass
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. (André Malraux)
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I shall be active and vigorous even from my tomb. View quote
Sai Baba of Shirdi
My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of the devotees. View quote
Sai Baba of Shirdi
E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. View quote
Thomas Gray
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!" View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. (Charles Baudelaire)
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared. View quote
Robertson Davies
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. View quote
John Milton
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you. View quote
John Keats