We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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.
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
And Dorothea. . she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived. . . I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
