Sepulcher Quotes

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. (Dorothy Day)
In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Every body, every soul is a Holy Sepulcher. Every seed of grain is a Holy Sepulchre; let us free it! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Viewed unsympathetically, this is nothing, a chance association-by-knees; yet if we cherish life, and are not mere creatures of death and sepulcher, deluded by the notion that only our own experience is real and our demise the end of the world, we see in it a reminder that we are all beads on a string - separate yet part of a unity. View quote
Robertson Davies
On the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher and saw the stone taken away from the sepulcher. View quote
Jesus Christ