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.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls - that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
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.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
