Tomb
A tomb (Greek: τύμβος tumbos[1]) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
Quotes
[edit]- He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the Universe.- Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), Part I, Section XLI.
- Gilded tombs do worms infold.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 7, line 69.
- I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
- Edmund Burke, letter to Matthew Smith.
- And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie;
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.- John Milton, Epitaph on Shakespeare.
- Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Funeral Thoughts, Book II, Volume IX. Hymn 63.
- Some of the followers of certain Mohammedan sects work all their lives to have a big tomb built for them when they die. I know sects among whom as soon as a child is born, a tomb is prepared for it; that is among them the most important work a man has to do and the bigger and the finer the tomb, the belter off the man is supposed to be.
- Swami Vivekananda, Complete works (1.32)
