Tombs Quotes - Page 9

• Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Clothes, Devil, May

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Retirement, Amusement

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mother, Heart, Sorrow

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.86, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Faith, Life Is Like, Lamps

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• I--though heart might find relief
  Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
  What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part.
  Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Christian, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• How can they know
  Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
  And there alone, that have no solitude?
  So the crowd come they care not what may come.
  They have loud music, hope every day renewed
  And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Solitude, Lamps

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Easter, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.168, Hendrickson Publishers

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• But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

  George Eliot

  Life, Numbers, Obscurity

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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• ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moon, Color, Feet

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• I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Sleep, Light, Sensitive

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, Rocks, Dust

  "Salon of 1767". Book by Denis Diderot, 1798.

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• Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

  Rod Steiger

  Doors, Miracle, Complacency

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• Take what the old-church
  found in Mithra's tomb,
  candle and script and bell,
  take what the new-church spat upon
  and broke and shattered.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I--love's skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb--
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother's womb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

  Chauncey Depew

  Memories, Home, Tragedy

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Clothes, Mind

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• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  Cleopatra

  Lying, Soil, Egyptian

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• Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

  Emily Dickinson

  Arrows, Atheism, Strikes

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.602, Harvard University Press

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• The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Sound, Lasts, Resurrection

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• The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Earth, Romeo And Juliet Play

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.56

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• The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Dawn, Blind

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• The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Years, Pharisees

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• There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

  Ryan Lindley

  Illegal, Things To Do, Contrary

  In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,

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