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Quotes About Tomb

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
~ Robert Browning
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?
~ Matthew Arnold
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?
~ Michelle Paver
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is here forever dead.
~ Milorad Pavi?
Do not build your tomb out of ruins, (Using) what had been made for what is to be made. Behold, the king is lord of joy, You may rest, sleep in your strength, Follow your heart, through what I have done, There is no foe within your borders.
~ Unknown
As for any people who would enter this tomb unclean and do something evil to it, there will be judgment against them by the great god. INSCRIPTION OF HETEP-HER-AKHET
~ Unknown
See, the Serpent is taken from its hole, The secrets of Egypt's kings are bared. See, the residence is fearful from want. Men stir up strife unopposed. See, the land is tied up in gangs, The coward is emboldened to seize his goods. See, the Serpent the dead. He who could not make a coffin owns a tomb. See, those who owned tombs are cast on high ground, He who could not make a grave owns a treasury. See now, the transformations of people, He who did not build a hut is an owner of coffers.
~ Unknown
The gatekeeper comes out to you, He grasps your hand, Takes you into heaven, to your father Geb. He rejoices at your coming, lives you his hands, Kisses you, caresses you, Utterance 373 Antechamber, West Wall The king is raised from his tomb
~ Unknown
The soul of Dallas is located at the Tomb of the Unknown Shopper, a monument that has not yet been built, but it will be as soon as Dallas acquires a municipal sense of humor.
~ Molly Ivins
What I want to suggest, with great temerity, is that in the resurrection one is given the beginning of a new knowing, a new epistemology, a new coming-to-speech, the Word born afresh after the death of all human knowing and speech, all human hope and love, after the silent rest of the seventh-day sabbatical in the tomb. I
~ Unknown
History, I believe, brings us to the point where we are bound to say: there really was an empty tomb, and there really were sightings of Jesus, the same and yet transformed. History then says: so how do you explain that? It offers us no easy escapes at that point, no quick side-exits to the question.
~ Unknown
Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ?
~ Unknown
Bien sabían los ingleses que las naciones se construyen sobre las tumbas de sus héroes. De no ser así, ¿para qué querían la abadía de Westminster?
~ Unknown
What was the mission of Jesus? What is the promise of the bloody cross and the empty tomb? What is the ultimate goal of the reigning King Christ? What is the scope of the work of redemption? What in the world is God working on? What does the final chapter of the grand redemptive story look like?
~ Paul David Tripp
I could have said their sleep is a challenge to us , to wake up….I could have said they sleep in sorrow for us who sleep through so many levels of our lives…they tell us that we, too, are guarding a tomb. We don't know what's in it. Perhaps nothing. Perhaps what was once in it has gone. We're scared to look. But we go on guarding it.
~ Unknown
prehistoric tomb," Glenn said. "There aren't any dolmen
~ Unknown
“Listen to us, sir. You are Godís chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
~ Genesis 23:6
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachelís tomb to this day.
~ Genesis 35:20
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ëI am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.í Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
~ Genesis 50:5
When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachelís tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ëThe donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”í
~ 1 Samuel 10:2
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
~ 2 Samuel 19:37
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saulís father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
~ 2 Samuel 21:14
Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”
~ 1 Kings 13:30
After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,
~ 1 Kings 13:31