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)