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Quotes About Tomb

Zamore may say within his tomb, as says the Greek dancer in her epitaph: "Earth, rest lightly on me, for I rested lightly on thee.
~ Theophile Gautier
mountains, and cried: 'That is the tomb of Kochoi, the companion of Manas!
~ Colin Thubron
And to fulfill the fish wish of the womb, A school of Freudians headed for the tomb.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Remember that, according to the Gospel of John, there were "Three Mary's" at the foot of the Cross! Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary of Clopas Mary Magdalene Three women mentioned in Mark 16: 1 also came to the tomb of Jesus who were named Mary!
~ Laurence Galian
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
~ Charles Dickens
Yet 'midst her towering fanes in ruin laid, The pilgrim saint his murmuring vespers paid; 'Twas his to mount the tufted rocks, and rove The chequer'd twilight of the olive-grove: 'Twas his to bend beneath the sacred gloom, And wear with many a kiss Messiah's tomb.
~ Charles G. Addison
Once and for all, let us speak the paradox aloud: "We have been force-fed for so long the shudders of a thousand graveyards that at last, seeking a macabre redemption, a salvation by horror, we willingly consume the terrors of the tomb...and find them to our liking.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Gaunt immortality in black and gold, Wreathed consoler hideous to behold. The beautiful lie of a mother's womb, The pious trick - for it is the tomb!
~ Thomas Ligotti
If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous ... let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb." [ Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation , 1792 (Paine's response to the charge of "seditious libel" brought against him after the publication of The Rights of Man )]
~ Thomas Paine
The voices of the oppressed will be heard from their rubbled tombs.
~ Tia Attwood
There was a curse. It lay on all of us, though we didn't know it. Anyway Lacau didn't. Standing there, reading the tomb seal out loud to me in my cage, he didn't have a clue who the warning was meant for. And the Sandalman, standing on the black ridge watching the bodies burn, had no idea he had already fallen victim to it.
~ Connie Willis
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired,' said Maxie. 'I know how that feels,' said Blue. 'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb,' Maxie added. 'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?
~ Charlie Higson
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
~ Josh McDowell
Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. You would fancy she was looking for dead things.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
She sang of the Love that is perfected by death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
~ Oscar Wilde
The Greek god Dionysus was a man-god said to be the "Son of Zeus." He was killed, buried, descended into hell, and rose from the dead to sit at the right hand of the father. His empty tomb at Delphi was long preserved and venerated by believers.
~ Dan Barker
From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.
~ Dan Brown
The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.
~ Dan Brown
Academics not long ago had gotten permission to X-ray the tomb of Pope Celestine V, who had allegedly died at the hands of his overeager successor, Boniface VIII. The researchers had hoped the X-ray might reveal some small hint of foul play—a broken bone perhaps. Incredibly, the X-ray had revealed a ten-inch nail driven into the Pope's skull.
~ Dan Brown
De la tumba terrenal de Santi, el diabólico agujero, los elementos místicos ,cruzan la ciudad. camino de la luz prueba reveladora que los ángeles te guíen a la iluminación
~ Dan Brown
The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb.
~ Lev Grossman
As such, he is sometimes the messenger of the gods and sometimes the guide of souls, carrying the dead into the underworld or opening the tomb to release them when they must walk among us.
~ Lewis Hyde