Entombed Quotes

#1. Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were untied in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them.

Georges Rodenbach

#2. He cranks the condo's AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic darkness where you're dreading whatever you think of.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?

Ralph Ellison

#4. Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.

John Green

#5. Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

Reza Aslan

#6. But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world
a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Virginia Woolf

#7. I am reading Henry James ... and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

W.G. Sebald

#9. We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#10. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.

Arthur Golden

#12. A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago ... tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

Wes Adamson

#13. Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Francis Bacon

#14. Remember the Wizard Archer's drill arrows that rescued the entombed miners? Well, we're drilling holes in your swiss cheese building to rescue you from a costly boner!

Robert Bernstein

#15. After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,
I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions."
(Annie from upcoming book 3)

Robert Kimbrell

#16. But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate;
(Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate!)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

Cormac McCarthy

#18. What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed.

Daniel Abraham

#19. shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair for your life entombed within stone, And fail without friends, to fly home alone.

Rick Riordan

#20. A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

Jimmy Cannon

#21. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

Cecily McMillan

#22. You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.

Leon Brown

#23. Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Joshua Bell

#24. How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#25. Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?

John Taylor Gatto

#26. You," he answers softly. "I'm not trying to fix you, I'm just trying to give you the tools to fix yourself.

J.A. Huss