Sepulcher Quotes

#1. Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule.

T.A. Rickard

#4. We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

Dorothy Day

#5. She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.

Adam Foulds

#6. It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards

#7. The Crusaders come to one immediate decision. They decide that the Orthodox Greek Christians, the Georgian Christians, the Armenian Christians and the Jacobite Christians no longer could hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Only the Latin rite could be celebrated in Jerusalem.

Paul L. Williams

#8. Hold! I must have lost it," said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. "But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!

Alexandre Dumas

#9. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.

James K. Morrow

#10. A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

George Herbert

#11. The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection.

Daphne Du Maurier

#12. Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness ... against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

Hakim Bey

#13. Fire was Mr. Long's chosen element; he had no sympathy with the rain. Yet he knew water was preordained to win, in the end. In man's end, at least. No vault or sepulcher could keep out the damp forever, and even ashes dissolved.

R.A. MacAvoy

#14. 8 is just an infinity symbol the right way up.

Kirsty Eagar

#15. There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#16. Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

Morgan Freeman

#17. Courage, Brave Heart

C.S. Lewis

#18. There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

Jimmy Page