Tomb

A tomb (Greek: τύμβος tumbos[1]) is a repository for the remains of the dead.

Quotes

 * 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)