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Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?
- Riley Poole — Ann Lloyd

There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living. — Henri Barbusse

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan — Stephen R. Lawhead

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

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn. — Victor Hugo

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. — Margaret Cavendish

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

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. — Louis Auguste Blanqui

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. — Karl Shapiro

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi

Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites. — David James Duncan

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

When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb. — Dennis Miller

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

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. — Sophie Swetchine

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

Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb — Mohammed Sekouty

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. — George Crabbe

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

the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb. — Beth Morey

Marriage is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die. — Charles Lamb

Marriage is the tomb of friendship. — Hannah Webster Foster

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent — Logan Pearsall Smith

Life is not meant to just zoom from the womb to the tomb. Slow down ... Enjoy the Journey! -RVM — R.v.m.

The tomb of ancient Egyptian Great Chief of the Oryx, Baqet III (2500 B.C.) — Jessie Perault

What about King Tut's tomb?" I protested.
"That boy king?" Zia rolled her eyes. "Boring. You should see some of the good tombs. — Rick Riordan

It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell. — Stephanie Zacharek

Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come — Joseph Campbell

Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched. — Israelmore Ayivor

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph] — Alexander The Great

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

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in. — Timothy Keller

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

Tobacco is the tomb of love. — Benjamin Disraeli

Utterly absorbing ... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there. — Jack F. Matlock Jr.

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

Our loss put six feet under ground
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb. — Allen Tate

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

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. — Kim Hyesoon

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

I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead — Amy Hatvany

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. — Joseph Rodman Drake

[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

Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ? — Nick Land

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
Laughter at the right moment, over the wine. — Callimachus

The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan. — David Icke

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets. — H.P. Lovecraft

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. — Rufus Wainwright

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

A problem is an answer waiting to be opened — Peter Lerangis

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca The Younger

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Thomas Gray

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. — James Beattie

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Nas

Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. — Victor Hugo

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

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb. — L.A. Larkin

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mort chuckled when she staggered through the tomb door. "Witch Slayer, are you? Another lovely title to add to your repertoire. — Sarah J. Maas

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. — Horace

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. — Bram Stoker

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave. — Bruce R. McConkie

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

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man. — Rick Riordan

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave. — Carolee Dean

The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry. — Rhianna Pratchett

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead. — Tony Hendra

mountains, and cried: 'That is the tomb of Kochoi, the companion of Manas! — Colin Thubron

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

The mustiness that permeated the apartment, its whole subterranean atmosphere, was redolent of an abandoned tomb. — Jose Saramago

The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb. — Lev Grossman

Memories are fragile; they can be broken and forgotten or preserved like a tomb. — Tony Conte

This building, the tower that was supposed to be the centerpiece of your little Gotham Initiative? Now it'll be your tomb. — Scott Snyder

The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb — Nancy B. Brewer

For the greedy there will be no tomb — Ptahhotep

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe! — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The final notes of the funeral march dropped like violets onto the tomb of the hero — Jose Saramago

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. — Sterling Hayden

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

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop. — George MacDonald