Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.
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Young soul put off your flesh, and come With me into the quiet tomb,...
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The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb. What is her burying grave, that is her womb.
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I inhale the sweet breeze that comes from thy mouth, I contemplate thy beauty every day. It’s my desire to hear thy lovely voice like the north wind’s whiff. Love will rejuvenate my limbs. Give me thy hands that hold thy soul, I shall embrace and live by it. Call me by name again, again, forever, and never will it sound without response.
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I died for Beauty—but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room—
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With plough and spade, and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb,...
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Deep hearts, wise minds, take life as God has made it. It is a long trial; An unintelligable preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for man at the first step in the interior of the tomb. There he begins to discern the definite. The definite, think of this word! The living see the infinite; the definite reveals itself only to the dead. Meantime, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved forms, bodies, appearances only. Death will take all from him. Try to love souls, you shall find them again.
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The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen-cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dum. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
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Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;...
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And we passed to the end of a vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb—...
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Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps.
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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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Matthew 28:1:
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
(NIV)
NOW AFTER the Sabbath, near dawn of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to take a look at the tomb.
(AMP)
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
(KJV)
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John 20:1:
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
(NIV)
NOW ON the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from (lifted out of the groove across the entrance of) the tomb.
(AMP)
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
(KJV)
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As I grow older and older And totter towards the tomb, I find I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
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I—love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb— Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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Acts 2:29:
'Brothers and sisters, we all know that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.'
(NIV)
Brethren, it is permitted me to tell you confidently and with freedom concerning the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
(AMP)
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
(KJV)
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As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
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Luke 24:1:
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
(NIV)
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
(KJV)
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John 20:11:
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
(NIV)
But Mary remained standing outside the tomb sobbing. As she wept, she stooped down [and looked] into the tomb.
(AMP)
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
(KJV)
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