Quotes About Tomb

You're unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death's business is among the living.

Mary Magdalene is recorded in the Gospels as present at the Crucifixion and at Christ's burial, and to have gone, with other women, to the tomb on Easter morning. She is the first to have learned the tomb was empty. She heard from an angel that Christ had been raised. She is the first person to have seen Jesus after his resurrection. She is the first to have proclaimed Jesus was raised from the dead. She plays a central place in Jesus's ministry.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

It was the twentieth year after the Great War. Mars was a tomb planet.

What our assessment of the Jesus tomb hypothesis has shown is the danger of publicity-driven efforts that aren't carefully checked.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Why had I not understood that this was not simply the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the church of his tomb? It was also the Church of the Resurrection.

It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe.

A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki's father, and Hideki's heart lurched.

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

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.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

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

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

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

I, fed with judgment, in a fleshy tomb, am Buried above ground.

Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Story tells us of some Turks who have, upon the sight of Mahomet's tomb, put their eyes out, that they might not defile them, forsooth! with any common object after they had been blessed with seeing one so sacred.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

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.

Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.