Top 325 Tomb Quotes & Sayings

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

Marriage is the tomb of love.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

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

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

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.

I still rate the bit in the first 'Tomb Raider' where the T Rex comes round the end of the valley and roars as one of the most awesome gaming experiences, and I still adore 'Tomb Raider' for putting that in my life.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.