Tombs Quotes - Page 14

• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Long, Steps

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• I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.

  Howard Carter

  Kings, Science, Thinking

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• His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Vampire, Velvet

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Obedience, Social

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• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Literature, Domes

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Appointments

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• I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

  David S. Goyer

  Successful, Thinking, Games

  "David S. Goyer talks Dark Knight, Superman and Call of Duty: Black Ops". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

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• If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Humble, Paris, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.459, Delphi Classics

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• Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Silent, Hours

  'The River Duddon' (1820) st. 34 'After-Thought'

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• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Butterfly, Natal

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.255

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• 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

  Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Hands, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Fire, Voice

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Crush, Depressing, Fate

  Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”

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• Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

  George Crabbe

  Grace, Virtue, Neglect

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 2 'The Church' l. 133

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• It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Writing, Dark, Alive

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• Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

  Horace

  Hair, Years, Tears

  Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Architecture, Prophecy, Finished

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

  Beth Moore

  Mean, Resurrection, Empty

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• Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.168, Psychology Press

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• (The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Grateful, Pigs, Might

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.121

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• I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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• My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Morning, Next

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