#tomb

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?" ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#beautiful #beautiful people #i #like #lists

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#elephant #games #had #i #kids

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? ↗

— Margaret Smith

#angry #had #his #looking #man

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#into #like #looks #museum #museums

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crisis #egyptian #followed #had #influence

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#comes #epitaph #final #leave #live

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#caught #dark #find #haunt #images

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ↗

— Aubrey de Vere

#memory #naked #stands #tombstone #weeds

He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth. ↗

— T.H. White

#on #tombstone #want #what #you

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cemetery #death #lyonesse #tombstones #wrocław