Quotes About Tomb

#1. I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

Angelina Jolie

#2. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the side of the sea.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie

#6. Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb

Mohammed Sekouty

#7. Wherever it's spoken, Gaelic sounds like a combination of Swedish and Hebrew.

Howard Tomb

#8. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.

Karen Maitland

#9. Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#10. Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

Lynette Fromme

#11. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Thomas Hughes

#12. Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.

Susan Kay

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

Solomon

#15. Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Thomas Browne

#18. EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Idries Shah

#19. If I should pass the tomb of Jonah I would stop and sit for a while. For I was buried one time deep in the dark and came out alive after all.

Anonymous

#20. 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

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

Wallace Stevens

#22. With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

Howard Carter

#23. The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.

Anthony Liccione

#24. I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

Zahi Hawass

#25. For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

Thomas Campbell

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

Jan De Bont

#27. Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Helen Simonson

#28. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

John Milton

#29. The tomb lies at the end of every path. Only the soul is immortal. Guard this treasure well. Your decaying husk is but a temporary vessel on an endless voyage.

William Hjortsberg

#30. Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Beth Moore

#32. A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Rumi

#33. Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.

Clark Ashton Smith

#34. I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Edmund Burke

#35. My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

Omar Khayyam

#36. A problem is an answer waiting to be opened

Peter Lerangis

#37. At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb.

H.P. Lovecraft

#38. In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#39. On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.

Bram Stoker

#40. And so, all the night-tide, I lay down the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the surrounding sea.

Edgar Allan Poe

#41. Lucia replied: I'm about 2 go play Tomb Raider . . . but it's REAL. Bet U wish U were here. HOOKER!

Kresley Cole

#42. As Froi crossed this icy tomb, it occurred to him that he might never see Lord August and Lady Abian again. That he had never told them the truth. Finn and Isaboe had taught him to love, but the village of Sayles had taught him to belong.

Melina Marchetta

#43. My body is not a tomb for animals.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#44. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

#45. And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place ...

William Butler Yeats

#46. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#47. It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Jim Carroll

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

Umberto Eco

#49. You're a trouble-maker. What race do you belong to, anyhow?' 'The human race,' I said. 'I come from the womb and I'm bound for the tomb, the same as you, the same as King George the Six, the same as Johnny Squat.

Joseph Mitchell

#50. To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Joyce Herzog

#51. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Fulton J. Sheen

#52. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here.

Billy Graham

#53. 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

#54. Time is no river. Not here. In this tomb, time is the stone. It is the darkness, permanent and unyielding, its only measure the twin pendulums of life - breath and the beating of my heart. In.

Pierce Brown

#55. Thus the husband is buried at Memphis and the wife in Koptos, yet the Ka of the wife goes to live in her husband's tomb

H. Rider Haggard

#56. He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with stains the shapes of planets and an existential crisis. But he wouldn't want to sound too French about it.

Kevin Barry

#57. I
love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb.

William Butler Yeats

#58. You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. "That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.

Kresley Cole

#59. I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

Victor Hugo

#60. There is no way back. No other explanations have been offered, in two thousand years of sneering skepticism toward the Christian witness, that can satisfactorily account for how the tomb came to be empty, how the disciples came to see Jesus, and how their lives and worldviews were transformed.

N. T. Wright

#61. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Plato

#62. When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Jan De Bont

#63. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brown Jr.

#64. As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

Francis Quarles

#65. He who has no tomb has the sky for his vault.

Augustine Of Hippo

#66. I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

Neal A. Maxwell

#67. This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Benito Mussolini

#68. Obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.

James Joyce

#69. I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

Marc Bolan

#70. I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

Jose Canseco

#71. He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.

Margaret Widdemer

#72. In a fleshly Tomb, I am Buried above ground.

William Cooper

#73. That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,
Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

William C. Bryant

#74. The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry.

Rhianna Pratchett

#75. His ancestors had been keen on pyramids. The pharaoh wasn't. Pyramids had bankrupted the country, drained it drier than ever the river did. The only curse they could afford to put on a tomb these days was 'Bugger Off'. The

Terry Pratchett

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

Nathalia Crane

#77. Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Bertrand Russell

#78. Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

#79. Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb.

Rainbow Rowell

#80. Kaz had tapped his crow's head cane on the flagstones of the tomb floor. "Do you know what Van Eck's problem is?"
"No honor?" said Matthias.
"Rotten parenting skills?" said Nina.
"Receding hairline?" offered Jesper.

Leigh Bardugo

#81. The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

Paul Althaus

#82. From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money - Jolie has been the one actress who can stand up to any male star and stare him down.

Richard Corliss

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

Emile M. Cioran

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

Suzy Menkes

#85. How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Jules Verne

#86. Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.

Archimedes

#87. The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

Lee Strobel

#88. And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear,
Unchanged for fifteen hundred year ... '
He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

Aldous Huxley

#89. English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.

Anthony Burgess

#90. Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come

Joseph Campbell

#91. A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#92. Like Abraham you will believe, like Sarah you will conceive, and like Moses you will rise from your isolation and exile. You will live again. God is determined to reverse your tragedy into transformation and crown your tomb with the testimony of a glorious resurrection. From

Dutch Sheets

#93. 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.

Elizabeth Bowen

#94. My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#95. 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.

Caitlin Thomas

#96. The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be, probably accounts for this.

Thomas Hardy

#97. I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

David S.Goyer

#98. Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb.
You should look under the bed.

N.D. Wilson

#99. Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

#100. Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

Bram Stoker